111 Movie Quotes about Motivation (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: May 16, 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.

21 I'll make you all a promise. If you'll all stick with me and work hard, we'll forget about money.

Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer in The Cocoanuts (1929)

22 The main thing is, you must set your sights upon the heights, don't be a mediocrity. -Mediocrity? -That's right.

Karl Swenson as Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

23 Now I'm really done for. -No, no, you're in a great spot, boy. You can't go down now. It can only be up from here.

Karl Swenson as Merlin; Rickie Sorensen as Arthur in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

24 So if you wish long enough, wish strong enough, you will come to know wishing will make it so.

Quote from Love Affair (1939)

25 Well, today's the day, girls. We're going to fly! I can feel it!

Julia Sawalha as Ginger in Chicken Run

26 You can do it, you old sausage.

Imelda Staunton as Bunty in Chicken Run

27 I don't know what to do about the depression, and inflation, and the Russians, and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

28 You've got to say: I'm a human being, goddamn it. My life has value.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

29 I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell: I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

30 Stick your head out of the window, open it, and stick your head out. And keep yelling and yell: I'm as mad as hell. I'm not gonna take this anymore! Just get up from your chairs, right now, go to the window!

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)