ANDY DUFRESNE, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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?

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

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

“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?”

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

”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.”

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