25 Inspirational Movie Quotes That Could Change Your Life

“Don’t ever let somebody tell you-you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it.

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – Gandalf, from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

“Great men are not born great, they grow great.” – Mario Puzo, from The Godfather

“Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.” – Sean Maguire, from Good Will Hunting

“Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It’s not about winning. It’s about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn’t let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could.

“Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.” – Dory, from Finding Nemo

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris, from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

“What we do in life echoes in eternity.” – Maximus, from Gladiator

“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” – William Wallace, from Braveheart

“I know what I have to do now. I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?” – from Cast Away

”Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

“Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.” – Forrester, from Finding Forrester

“Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’.” – Andy Dufresne, from The Shawshank Redemption

“No one ever made a difference by being like everybody else.” – P.T. Barnum, from The Greatest Showman

“Kid, there are heroes and there are legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you’ll never go wrong.” – Babe Ruth, from The Sandlot

“I don’t want excuses. I know what you’re up against. We’re all of us up against something. So you better make up your mind, because until you have the balls to look me straight in the eye and tell me this is all you deserve, I am not letting you fail.

“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – Dumbledore, from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” – The Emperor, from Mulan

“You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions.

Frodo: “What are we holding onto, Sam?”

Sam: “That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.”

– Frodo and Sam, from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

“The accident is your training. Life is a choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you’d like to be.” – Socrates, from Peaceful Warrior

“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” – Clarence the angel, from It’s a Wonderful Life

“In this life time, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody, except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through,if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen.” – Fortune, from Rudy

“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” – Rafiki, from The Lion King

Do, or do not. There is no “try”. – Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back