109 Movie Quotes about Motivation (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 30, 2026

Memorable quotes about motivation, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Don't talk like that. You'll be all right.

Belle From Beauty And The Beast in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

2 Rabbit's an inspiration to all of us.

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 I'm going to change into a beautiful butterfly. Yeah, I will because I have what it takes right here, inside. And you know what, kid? So do you. You proved it by getting this far. Just look inside.

Mandy Patinkin as Huxley in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

4 You have rekindled the long-dormant embers of purpose in our lives.

Dave Foley as Flik in A Bug's Life

5 Enough lollygagging. Time to get to work. It's a long way to Tipperary.

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them.

James Earl Jones as Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

7 This city's got a beat. You gotta hook into it. And once you got the beat, you can do anything.

Billy Joel as Dodger in Oliver & Company (1988)

8 All right. You're a reindeer. Here's your motivation. Your name is Rudolph. You're a freak with a red nose, and nobody likes you.

Jim Carrey as The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas

9 The will to do that, perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.

Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

10 Bastian! Why don't you do what you dream, Bastian?

Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress in The NeverEnding Story (1984)