Motivation is the reason for people’s actions, willingness and goals, often seen as needs that require satisfaction. These needs could also be wants or desires that are acquired through influence of culture, society, lifestyle, etc. or generally innate. Motivation is one’s direction to behavior, or what causes a person to want to repeat a behavior, a set of force that acts behind the motives.
Motivation is considered as one of the most important reasons that inspire people to move forward in life. Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors. Mastering motivation to allow sustained and deliberate practice is central to high levels of achievement. Movies are known to have quotes that can motivate people to achieve their goals.
Some of the best motivational quotes from movies are listed below.
- “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” – Shrek, Shrek The Third
- “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- “Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness
- “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” – William Wallace, Braveheart
- “Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter.” – John Nash, A Beautiful Mind
- “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” – Vito Corleone, The Godfather
- “In this lifetime, 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, Rudy
- “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.” – Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own
- “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society
- “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. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” – Rocky, Rocky Balboa
- “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” – Rafiki, The Lion King
- “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” – Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- “Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.” – Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting
- “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, Finding Forrester
- “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” – Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
- “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
- “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort, Wolf of the Wall Street
- “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
- “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” – Maximus, from Gladiator
- “Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” – Alfred, Batman Begins
- “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” – Eames, Inception
