Settle back for our third round-up of inspirational quotes from movies. If you’ve missed the first two, you can catch them here and here.
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“You can’t learn anything when you’re talking. That’s a fact of life. As long as you’re talking, you’re not listening.”
Rocky Balboa, Creed
“People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and for perceived flaws: age, appearance, personality.”
Peter Brand, Moneyball
“Someday is a dangerous word. It’s really just a code word for never.”
Roy Miller, Knight and Day
“If you focus on what you’ve left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.”
Gusteau, Ratatouille
“If does not do to dwell on dreams Harry, and forget to live.”
Professor Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
“There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.”
Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
“When I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it: always.”
Mohandas K Gandhi, Gandhi
“Losers are people who are so afraid of not winning, they don’t even try.”
Grandpa Edwin, Little Miss Sunshine
“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”
Conrad Brean, Wag the Dog
“Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, ‘that’s baaaaad.’ Robert Frost said, ‘Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.'”
John Keating, Dead Poets Society
“We can all turn a small light on in a dark room.”
Miep Gies, Freedom Writers
“It is the small, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay – small acts of kindness and love.”
Gandalf, The Hobbit
“Being perfect is not about the scoreboard. It’s about being honest.”
Coach Gaines, Friday Night Lights
“Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.”
Sean O’Connell, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, ‘O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?’ Answer. That you are here – that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
John Keating, Dead Poets Society
“Our only curses are the ones that are self imposed. We all of us dig our own holes.”
Coach Gaines, Friday Night Lights
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
John Keating, Dead Poets Society
“Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse wouldn’t quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter.”
Frank Abagnale Sr, Catch Me If You Can
“Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage, just literally 20 seconds of just embarrassing bravery and I promise you something great will come of it.”
Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo
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