“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.”

“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?”

<div>“What we do in life echoes in eternity.”</div>

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

“Great men are not born great, they grow great.”

“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.”

“Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’.”

”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.”

“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

“No one ever made a difference by being like everybody else.”

Frodo: “What are we holding onto, Sam?” Sam: “That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.”

“Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.”

“Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.”

“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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. Even if that means coming to your house every night until you finish the work. I see who you are. Do you understand me? I can see you. And you are not failing.”

“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?’”

Do you think that a movie quote could change your life? Actually, it can. Let's face it, movies have a dynamic power to change and teach us. Whether it's by moving us to tears or giving us the courage to keep going, some of the best inspirational messages are found on the big screen.

ANDY DUFRESNE, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

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