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#Oscars Weekend: #Inspirational #Quotes from the Movies
“Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.” -Robin Williams “Night at the Museum”
“If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.” -Robin Williams “Dead Poets Society”
“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?” -Tom Hanks “Cast Away”
“Ruin is the road to transformation.” -Julia Roberts “Eat, Pray, Love”
“When you love someone, you’ve got to trust them. There’s no other way. You’ve got to give them the key to everything that’s yours. Otherwise, what’s the point?” -Robert De Niro “Casino”
“When you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that’s a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us….. And I know if I’m going to have any life anymore it’s because I’m still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that’s what living is, the six inches in front of your face.” Al Pacino “Any Given Sunday”
“Man, you told me if I think pennies, I get pennies. I’m thinking dollars, man.” Jamie Foxx “Ray”
“If you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win. That’s just the way it is.” -Clint Eastwood ” The Outlaw Josie Wales”
“Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.” -Sidny Poiter ” To Sir With Love”
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me.” -Jack Nicholson “The Departed”
“A man that doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.” -Marlon Brando “The Godfather”
“Freedom is assassinated by egotism.” -Marlon Brando “Last Tango in Paris”
“Pain make man think, thought make man wise, wisdom make life endurable.” -Marlon Brando “The Tea House of the August Moon”
“You know what luck is? Luck is believing you’re lucky, that’s all.” -Marlon Brando “A Streetcar named Desire”
“Destiny is what we make it.” -Denzel Washington “The Bone Collector”
“Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.” -Morgan Freeman “Invictus”
“Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.” -Morgan Freeman “Wanted”
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. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ’Has your life brought joy to others?’” -Morgan Freeman “Bucket List”
“Sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back. But step back too far and you ain’t fighting at all.” Morgan Freem “Million Dollar Baby”
Wisest Quotes from Best Picture Oscar Winners of the 1980’s
1) “Where does the power come from to see the race to its end? From within.”
”Chariots of Fire (1981) – Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson)
2) “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
Gandhi (1982) – Mohandas Gandhi (Ben Kingsley)
3) “Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.” Out of Africa (1985) – Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep)
4) “Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what’s left of our lives to find a goodness and ameaning to this life.” Platoon (1986) – Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen)
5) “If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.” The Last Emperor (1987) – Reginald Johnston (Peter O’Toole)
Wisest Quotes from Best Picture Oscar Winners of the 1990’s
1) “Every man dies but not every man really lives.”
Braveheart (1995) – William Wallace (Mel Gibson)
2) “When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.”
Titanic (1997) – Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio)
3) “Of all the trails in this life, there is one that matters most. It is the trail of a true human being. I think you are on this trail and it is good to see.”Dances With Wolves (1990) – Kicking Bird (Graham Greene)
4) “I would stay asleep my whole life if I could dream myself into a company of players.” Shakespeare in Love (1998) – Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow)
5) “I don’t know if we each have a destiny or if we’re just floating around accidental- like on a breeze. But I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both are happening at the same time.” Forrest Gump (1994) – Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
Wisest Quotes from Best Picture Oscar Winners of the 2000’s
1) “In L.A., nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.” Crash (2005) – Graham Waters (Don Cheadle)
2) “It’s called ‘life’, John. Activities available, just add meaning.” A Beautiful Mind (2001) – Alicia Nash (Jennifer Connelly)
3) “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” Gladiator (2000) – Maximus (Russell Crowe)
4) “You can like the life you’re living, you can live the life you like.” Chicago (2002) – Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger)
5) “Sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back. But step back too far and you ain’t fighting at all.” Million Dollar Baby (2004) – Eddie Dupris (Morgan Freeman)
Inspirational Quotes from Movies
Somewhere along the line
we stopped believing
we could do anything.
And if we don’t have our dreams,
we have nothing.
-The Astronaut Farmer
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.
-Dead Poet’s Society
God must be a painter.
Why else would we have so many colors?
-A Beautiful Mind
You want to know how to be here?
Stop constantly waiting for something.
-Eat Pray Love
I found out what the secret to life is:
friends. Best friends.
-Fried Green Tomatoes
If you got to have a dream,
you may as well dream big.
-Jumper
A teacher has two jobs:
fill young minds with knowledge, yes,
but more important,
give those minds a compass so that that knowledge doesn’t go to waste.
-Mr. Holland’s Opus
If the people we love are stolen from us,
the way to have them live on
is to never stop loving them.
Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
-The Crow
May the wind always be on your back
and the sun upon your face
and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft
to dance with the stars.
-Blow
’What’ and ‘if’
are two words as non-threatening as words can be,
but put them together side by side
and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life.
-Letters to Juliet
If you want to limit yourself, that’s fine.
But don’t let other people do it for you.
-Gracie
You must not let anyone
define your limits because of where you come from.
Your only limit is your soul.
-Ratatouille
I know you can’t live on hope alone,
but without hope life isn’t worth living.
So you and you and you, you’ve got to give them hope.
-Milk
Sight is about what lies right in front of us.
Vision is what lies ahead.
-Imagine That
If you focus on what you’ve left behind,
you will never be able to see what lies ahead.
-Ratatouille
Until you start believing in yourself,
you ain’t gonna have a life!
-Rocky Balboa
Whenever I despair,
I remember that the way of truth and love has always won.
There may be tyrants, murderers
and for a time, they may seem invincible,
but in the end they always fail.
-Gandhi
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-An Ideal Husband
I think one day you’ll find
that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.
-An American Tail
I think happiness comes from
caring more about people rather than less.
-Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
What a beautiful death to die
in the arms of your passion.
-Man on Wire
Kids, you got to be yourself.
You can’t act like anybody else
just because you think they have all the answers and you don’t.
You have to be your own man
and learn to speak up and say what’s on your mind.
-Zelig
Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.
-The African Queen
Insanity is coasting through life
in a miserable existence
when you have a caged lion locked inside
and the key to release it.
-Wanted
I remember one morning getting up at dawn,
there was such a sense of possibility. You know that feeling?
And I remember thinking to myself this is the beginning of happiness.
This is where it starts and of course there will always be more.
It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning.
It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.
-The Hours
It takes practice and skill to live without regret.
-A Good Woman
