Inspirational Movie Speeches and Quotes Movie: Braveheart

Before the first major battle in Scotland.

Wallace: Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace.

Young soldier: William Wallace is 7 feet tall.

Wallace: Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds, and if he were here he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his ***. I AM William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What would you do without freedom? Will you fight?
Veteran soldier: Fight? Against that? No, we will run; and we will live.

Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live -- at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!! Wallace and Soldiers: Alba gu bra! (Scotland forever!)
Movie: Gladiator

Maximus: "What we do in life... echoes in eternity!"

Movie: Glory
Men of the 54th Regiment Gather for Prayer Meeting on the Eve of the Battle of Fort Wagner.

Private Jupiter Sharts: Tomorrow, we go into battle. So Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand and Good Book in the other. That if I should die at the muzzle of the rifle, die on water or on land, I may know that You, Blessed Jesus Almighty, are with me. And I have no fear. Amen.

Sergeant Major. John Rawlins: Lord, we stand before you this evenin' to say thank you. We thank you, Father, for your grace and your many blessins'. Now, I run off and left all my youngins and my kinfolk in bondage. So I'm standin' here this evenin', Heavenly Father, to ask your blessin! On all of us! So that if tomorrow is our great gettin' up mornin', if tomorrow we have to meet the Judgment Day, our Heavenly Father we want

you to let our folks know that we died facin' the enemy. We want 'em to know that we went down standin' up, amongst those that are fightin' against our oppression. We want 'em to know, Heavenly Father, that we died for freedom. We ask these blessins' in Jesus name. Amen. Amen! Amen!

Private Trip: I ain't much about no prayin' now. I ain't never had no family and...killed off my mama... I feel funny...

Sergeant Major. John Rawlins: C'mon, now. You doin' fine.

Private Trip: Well, I just... Ya'lls...is the onlyest family I got. And I loves the 54th.

Private Trip: Ain't much a matter what happen tomorrow. 'Cause we men, ain't we. We men, ain't we....

Movie: Cool Hand Luke

'Captain' Identifies The Problem Behind Luke's Escape.

Captain: You gonna get used to wearin' them chains after awhile, Luke. Don't you never stop listenin' to them clinking, cause they gonna remind you of what I've been saying -- for your own good.

Luke: I wish you'd stop being so good to me, Cap'm.

Captain: Don't you ever talk that way to me. Never! Never!
[addressing prisoners]

What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men, you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week -- which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it anymore than you men.

Movie: Hoosiers
Indiana State High School Championship Game: Husker Team Pre-Talk and Prayer.

Coach Dale: We've been all over this before. Their top player is Boyle, number 15. He averages about 20 points a game. Buddy, you gotta stick right with him. No inside penetration. Shut down those passing lanes. And you gotta play tough off those boards -- negate their height advantage.
Official: Hickory, it's time to take the floor. Colin Butcher: I'll get preacher.

Coach Dale: Okay. Well we're way past big speech time. I wanna thank you for the last few months. It's been very special for me. Anybody have anything they wanna say.

Merle: Yeah. Let's win this one for all all the small schools that never had a chance to get here.

Coach Dale: Okay.

Everett: I wanna win for my dad.

Buddy: Let's win for coach. You got us here.

Coach Dale: Thank you.

Reverend Doty: With God of heaven, it is all one: To deliver with a great multitude, or a small company. For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of hosts, but strength cometh from heaven.

Preacher Purl: And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on the head, and he fell to the ground. Doty and Purl: Amen. Strap: Amen.

Coach Dale: [huddling with the team] I love you guys. Coach and Players: TEAM!

Movie: Kingdom of Heaven

Balian of Ibelin Addresses the People of Jerusalem.

Balian of Ibelin: It has fallen to us to defend Jerusalem, and we have made our preparations as well as they can be made. None of us took this city from Muslims. No Muslim of the great army now coming against us was born when this city was lost. We fight over an offence we did not give, against those who were not alive to be offended. What is Jerusalem? Your holy places lie over the Jewish temple that the Romans pulled down. The Muslim places of worship lie over yours. Which is more holy? The wall? The Mosque? The Sepulcher? Who has claim? No one has claim. All have claim!

Jerusalem: That is blasphemy! Almaric: Be quiet.

Balian of Ibelin: We defend this city, not to protect these stones, but the people living within these walls.

Movie: Luther
Luther's Defense at the Imperial Diet of Worms.

Church Litigator: Order in the hall. Order! Order!! Martin Luther, are you the author of these writings?

Luther: I am.
Church Litigator: Do you recant what you have written here?

Luther: I cannot renounce all of my works because they are not all the same. [The] first of those books in which I have described Christian faith and life so simply that even my opponents have admitted that these works are useful -- to renounce these writings would be unthinkable, for that would be to renounce accepted Christian truths.
Girolamo Aleander: He is not here to make speeches -- only to answer.

Luther: The second group of my work is directed against the foul doctrine and evil living of the Popes, past and present.

Emperor Charles V: No!

Luther: Through the laws of the Pope and the doctrines of men, the consciences of the faithful have been miserably vexed and flayed. If I recant these books, I will do nothing but add strength to tyranny and open not just the windows but also the doors to this great ungodliness.
Girolamo Aleander: [To the Emperor] He has condemned himself.

Luther: In the third group, I have written against private persons and individuals who uphold Roman tyranny and have attack my own efforts to encourage piety to Christ. I confess that I have written too harshly. I am but a man and I can err. Only let my errors be proven by Scripture, and I will revoke my work and throw my books into the fire.

Girolamo Aleander: You have not answered the question! You, Martin Luther, will not draw into doubt those things which the Catholic Church has judged already, things that have passed into usage, rite, and observance: the faith that Christ, the Most Perfect Law Giver, ordained; the faith the martyrs strengthened with their blood. You wait in vain for a disputation over things that you are obligated to believe. Now give your answer: "Yes" or "No"?

Church Litigator: Will you recant or will you not?!

Luther: Since Your Majesty and your lordships desire a simple reply, I will answer. Unless I am convinced by Scripture and by plain Reason -- and not by Popes and Councils who have so often contradicted themselves -- my conscience is captive to the Word of God. To go against conscience is neither right nor safe. I cannot and I will not recant. Here I stand.

I can do no other. God help me.

Movie: Jesus of Nazereth

The Beatitudes.

Jesus of Nazareth:
Blessed are the poor in spirit -- for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn -- for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek -- for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for what is right -- for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful -- for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart -- for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers -- for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted in the cause of right -- for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and speak all kinds of ... against you for my sake. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. As it was with the prophets persecuted before you.

Movie: Knute Rockne: All American

Knute Rockne: Halftime "Gipper" Address to Notre Dame Players.

Well, boys, I haven't a thing to say. Played a great game -- all of you. Great game. I guess we just can't expect to win em all. I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. It was long before your time. But you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime, when the team is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper." "I don't know where I'll be then, Rock", he said, "but I'll know about it; and I'll be happy." Alright.

Movie: We Were Soldiers

Lieutenant Colonel Harold "Hal" G. Moore: Address to the 7th Cavalry.

Moore: Look around you. In the 7th Cavalry, we got a Captain from the Ukraine. Another from Puerto Rico. We've got Japanese, Chinese, Blacks, Hispanics, Cherokee Indians, Jews and Gentiles -- all Americans. Now here in the States, some men in this Unit may experience discrimination because of race or creed. But for you and me now, all that is gone. We're moving into the 'valley of the shadow of death' -- where you will watch the back of the man next to you, as he will watch yours. And you won't care what color he is or by what name he calls God. They say we're leavin' home. We're goin' to what home was always supposed to be. So let us understand the situation. We are goin' into battle against a tough and determined enemy. I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear before you and before Almighty God: That when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to stop off. And I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me God.

Movie: Schindler's List

Oskar Schindler Addresses 1200 Jewish Brunnlitz Factory Workers And Nazi Guards.

The unconditional surrender of Germany has just been announced. At midnight tonight, the war is over. Tomorrow, you'll begin the process of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases, you won't find them. After six long years of murder, victims are being mourned throughout the world. We've survived. Many of you have come up to me and thanked me. Thank yourselves.

Thank Itzhak Stern -and others among you who worried about you and faced death at every moment.

I am member of the Nazi Party. I'm a munitions manufacturer. I'm a profiteer of slave labor. I am a criminal. At midnight, you'll be free and I'll be hunted. I shall remain with you until five minutes after midnight, after which time, and I hope you'll forgive me, I have to flee.

[Turning to the Nazi guards]

I know you have received orders from our Commandant -- which he has received from his superiors -- to dispose of the population of this camp. Now would be the time to do it. Or, you could leave and return to your families as men -- instead of murderers.

[They turn and leave, first the SS guards...followed by their officers.]

In memory of the countless victims among your people, I ask us to observe

three minutes of silence.

[The Kaddish - Jewish Prayer]

Yisgadal v'yiskadash shmai raba. Magnified and sanctified be His great name. Congregation: Amen. Mourner: B'olmo deev'ro chir'usai, In this world which He has created in accordance with His will, v'yamlich malchusai, b'chayechon u'vyomechon, may He establish his kingdom during your lifetime, u'vchayai d'chol bais Yisroel, and during the life of all the House of Israel, ba'agolah u'vizman koriv, v'imru amen. Speedily, and let us say, Amen. Mourner: Y'hai shmai rabah m'varach, l'olam u'lalmey olmaya! Let His great name be blessed for ever and to all eternity!

Congregation: (Repeats above verse.) Mourner: Yisborach v'yishtabach v'yispa-er v'yisromam; Blessed, praised, glorified and exalted; v'yisnasai v'yishadar v'yisaleh v'yis-halal, extolled, honored, magnified and lauded, shemei d'Kudsha, b'rich Hu. Be the name of the Holy one, blessed be He. Congregation: B'rich Hu. Blessed be He. Mourner: L'aila min kol birchasa v'shirasa, tushbechasa v'nechamasa, He is greater than all blessings, hymns, praises and consolations, da'amiron b'olmo; v'imru, Amen. Which can be uttered in this world; and let us say Amen. Congregation: Amen.

Movie (AND T.V. SERIES): Star Trek

Captain James Tiberius Kirk: Opening Narrative on the Voyages of the Starship, Enterprise.

Space: The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's five year mission. To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.