Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed. — Wim Wenders
When people are inspired, they achieve more than they ever thought possible. — Michael Abrashoff
Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better." — Agnes Varda
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it. — John C. Reilly
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking. — Griffin Dunne
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. — Quentin Tarantino
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. — Walt Disney
The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before — Joshua Chamberlain
We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances. — Rachel Corrie
There's a power that movies and music has, that can move you and motivate you to look at your neighbor in a slightly more respectful way, and look at cultures in a more inclusive way. — Hans Zimmer
The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration. — Cornel West
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair. — Jason Silva
The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves. — Denis Waitley
By far for me the most important thing is inspiration. — Jay-Z
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation. — Comer Cotrell
Short Inspiring Movie Quotes
When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same. — Demi Lovato
Good art inspires; Good design motivates. — Otl Aicher
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired — Richard Kemp
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. — Salvador Dali
Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate. — Andy Mineo
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films. — Anthony Minghella
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. — Steven Spielberg
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images. — Steven Bochco
Inspiring Movie Image Quotes
You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours. — Anne Hathaway
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want. — Heath Ledger
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy. — J. K. Rowling
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. — Frank Capra
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Good Inspiring Movie Quotes
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. — George Lucas
I rented Ghostbusters, my all-time favorite inspirational movie. I picked up some microwave, popcorn, a KitKat, a bag of bite-sized Reese's peanut butter cups, and a box of instant hot chocolate with marshmallows. Do I know how to have a good time, or what? — Janet Evanovich
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad. — Quentin Tarantino
The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. — J. K. Rowling
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. — Karen Marie Moning
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies. — George Lucas
I've loved movies since I could remember. They were literally the most significant thing in my life as a kid. I'm really lucky that I've felt so inspired by them; they're such a good format to tell a story. — Rowan Blanchard
There's nothing more disheartening than seeing a movie and going oh, that doesn't work, or it didn't inspire us. Versus seeing a movie that is 'this is so awesome!'. Oftentimes, a really good movie just inspired you to go and make movies! — Kevin Feige
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. — Ellen Barkin
All Inspiring Movie Quotes
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. — J. K. Rowling
Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. — Julia Roberts
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. — J. K. Rowling
I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel. — Lars von Trier
For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry. — William J. Bernstein
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have. — J. K. Rowling
Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things. — Shunryu Suzuki
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. — Peter Sellers
Very Inspiring Quotes
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help. — John C. Maxwell
There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable. — Yasmin Mogahed
I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human. — John Trudell
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it. — Kathleen Norris
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. — Walt Whitman
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent. — Anthony of Padua
You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise. — Michael Jordan
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. — Richard P. Feynman
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. — Albert Camus
Powerful Inspirational Quotes
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life. — Witness Lee
I have never seen where hatred overcomes love. When you love, you overcome. Love is the most powerful weapon. — T. B. Joshua
The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me. — Sayings
Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy. — George Michael
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. — Fulton J. Sheen
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire. — Cesar Chavez
Inspirational Track Quotes
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — John D. Rockefeller
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. — Marcus Aurelius
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. — George S. Patton
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey
Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential. — Marla Runyan
Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. — Paula Radcliffe
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew I wanted to make music and become a DJ. I made a bootleg of a track by Enrique Iglesias called Tonight. — Martin Garrix
Inspirational Music Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. — Andres Segovia
The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment — Pythagoras
Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music. — Sergei Rachmaninoff
love the life you live. live the life you love. — Bob Marley
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. — Ludwig van Beethoven
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. — George Balanchine
Inspirational History Quotes
you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. — Voltaire
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. — Thurgood Marshall
Inspirational Speech Quotes
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. — Sarojini Naidu
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. — Bill Nye
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. — Gwendolyn Brooks
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost. — Ellen DeGeneres
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. — James Earl Jones
Inspiring Life Changing Quotes
If you want to change the world, start with yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise! — Maya Angelou
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. — John C. Maxwell
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. — Maya Angelou
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. — Wayne Dyer
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. — Sharon Salzberg
Inspirational Romance Quotes
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. — Erich Fromm
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Elinor Glyn
When people find out how strong and powerful love is, then this world will be a better place. I want to see this happen one day. — Amanda Nunes
In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things. — Kate Spade
But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day. — Nicholas Sparks
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J. K. Rowling
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — John Hughes
And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography. — Gus Van Sant
I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. — Asa Butterfield
Casting is 65 percent of directing. — John Frankenheimer
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. — Leonard Nimoy
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 and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse. — Frank Abagnale
Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be. — Michelle Yeoh
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. — J. K. Rowling
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. — Babe Ruth
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. — J. K. Rowling
You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. — J. K. Rowling
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . — Mario Puzo
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing. — Billy Bob Thornton
Be the hero in your own movie. Pretend that your life was a movie and it started now, what would the hero do? What would the person that you respect do? What would the person that you admire and inspire you do? Do that. — Joe Rogan
Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. — J. R. R. Tolkien
What I always tell people is... Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car than not do it, find something else to do as a career and do filmmaking as a hobby. This industry is one of the hardest to break into and be successful. It takes a lot of passion and dedication for it to get anywhere. — Ryan Connolly
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you. — Kevin Costner
I guess the dream would be to do movies, and keep people updated with my videos. — Ryan Higa
I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like. — John Huston
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? — Steven Spielberg
When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like. — Sofia Coppola
If you want something, go get it. Period. — Chris Gardner
Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down. — Kirk Douglas
I’ll continue to make videos as long as I have the time and people continue to watch my videos, but eventually I’d like to mainstream into TV or movies. — Ryan Higa
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges. — Ron Howard
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Mario Puzo
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. — J. K. Rowling
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. — J. K. Rowling
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event. — Sylvester Stallone
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