The Top 5 Most Inspiring Movie Motivational Speeches

We’ve covered a lot of awesomely inspiring stuff on Wealthy Gorilla previously, but the finest motivational speeches from renowned movies is something we’ve never covered before.

Isn’t it true that we all have a favorite motivational film? That one movie that gets you extra fired up for the day ahead, or maybe it’s so motivating you can’t stop yourself from watching it anytime you have some spare time?

So, we’ve compiled a list of five films you should see the next time you have an hour or two to spare.

 

 

The Top 5 Most Inspiring Movie Motivational Speeches

The following are what we consider to be the five finest motivating speeches ever delivered in a film. If your favorite speech isn’t on this list, please let us know in the comments section once you’ve finished reading!

 

The Shawshank Redemption (The Shawshank Redemption) (The Shawshank Redemption) (The Shaws

Ellis Boyd Redding, according to your records, you’ve served 40 years of a life sentence. Do you consider yourself to have been rehabilitated?

Red: Have you been rehabilitated? So, let’s see what happens now. I have no notion what it implies, to be honest.

Parole Hearing Man: That implies you’re ready to reintegrate into society…

Red: Sonny, I know what you’re thinking. It’s simply a made-up term to me. A politician’s term, so young lads like you may get a job while wearing a suit and tie. What exactly do you want to know? Do I apologise for what I did?

Parole Hearing Officer: How are you doing?

Red: There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t regret anything. It’s not because I’m here or because you believe I should be. When I think back on how I was back then, I see myself as a young, foolish child who did that dreadful act. I’d want to speak with him.

I’d want to attempt to reason with him and explain him how things are. But I’m afraid I won’t be able to. That youngster is long gone, and all that’s left is this elderly guy. That was something I had to deal with. Rehabilitated? It’s simply a bunch of nonsense.

So, sonny, go ahead and stamp your paperwork and quit wasting my time. Because, to be honest, I couldn’t care less.

 

2. Jordan Belfort (Wolf of Wall Street)

“I’m sure many of you have been hearing stories about me, about the firm’s future, and that’s what I’d want to discuss with you today.” When I began Stratton with Donnie Azoff five years ago, I knew there would come a day when I’d have to leave. It is with a sad heart that I inform you that that day has arrived.

Thank you for it, as well as for your great loyalty and appreciation throughout the years. The point is, under Donnie’s guidance, and with Robbie Feinberg and Nicky Koskoff assuming major managerial roles, this place will be better than ever!

And the fact that I’m gone won’t stop me from offering Donnie advice, which he doesn’t need…

Before I go, I’d want to remind you all of something: Stratton Oakmont is far larger than any one individual, including myself. Particularly me. Every single one of you is Stratton, which is why it will undoubtedly stay the top brokerage business in the fucking world!

See, the whole point of Stratton is that when you go into this bullpen for the first time, it’s like starting again. You have a home here, and no one can deprive you of it! America is Stratton Oakmont! Give me your poor and exhausted!

You become a member of a family, a Strattonite, the minute you step through that door and swear your commitment to our business! It makes no difference who you are or where you come from!

Whether your ancestors arrived through the Mayflower or a f****** inner tube from Haiti!

Isn’t Kimmie Belzer well-known around here?

Kimmie was one of Stratton’s initial brokers, one of the original twenty, in case any of you didn’t know. When most of you first met Kimmie, she was a beautiful lady driving a brand new Mercedes and living in Long Island’s most exclusive condominium complex.

A lady who spends her winters in the Bahamas and her summers in the Hamptons, wearing $3000 Armani outfits!

That is not, however, the Kimmie I met. I met a broke Kimmie who was a single parent on the balls of her a**. With an eight-year-old boy, she’s three months overdue on her rent! She applied for a job with me, and when I accepted her, she requested a $5000 advance so she could pay his tuition. And, Kimmie, what did I do?

Kimmie: You gave me a $25,000 cheque!

Because I believed in you, as I do every single one of you!

Jordan, I adore you! Kimmie:

I’ve been teaching you folks for years not to accept no for an answer, to keep pushing, and to keep calling until you get what you want. This arrangement I’m about to sign will keep me out of the securities business and out of Stratton, my hometown…

What the f*** is going on there? It’s me being a hypocrite, I’ll tell you what it is. It’s me who won’t take no for an answer, and they’re the ones who sell me, not the other way around! I’m not going anywhere!

 

3. Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday

“To be honest, I’m at a loss for words. Three minutes till the most important struggle of our professional life culminates today. Now it’s either we heal as a unit or we collapse, inch by inch, play by play, till we’re done.

Believe me when I say that we’re in hell right now. We can either remain here and be booted out, or we can battle our way back into the light. One inch at a time, we can crawl our way out of hell.

I’m afraid I won’t be able to help you now. I’m beyond my prime. I have a look around. When I see these youthful faces, I feel like I’ve made every bad decision a middle-aged guy can make. Believe it or not, I pissed away all of my money. Anyone who has ever loved me has been driven away by me. And recently, I haven’t been able to tolerate looking in the mirror.

You know, as you grow older, things get taken away from you. That is, after all, a part of life. However, you only realize this when you start misplacing your belongings. You discover that life is a game of inches. Football is the same way.

Because the margin for error is so thin in either life or football – one-half stride too late or too early, and you don’t quite make it. You’re half a second too slow, half a second too quick, and you can’t quite catch it.

The inches we need are all around us.

They’re there at every game break, every minute, and every second.

We battle for every inch on this squad. We rip ourselves and everyone else around us to shreds for that inch on this squad.

We fight with our fingernails for that inch because we know that when all those inches are added up, it will be the difference between winning and losing! Between life and death!

I’ll tell you something: in every combat, the one who is prepared to die is the one who will win that inch. And I know that if I’m going to live any longer, it’ll be because I’m willing to fight and die for that inch. Because that’s what life is all about! The six inches just in front of your eyes!!

I can no longer compel you to do it. You’ve got to take a peek at the person sitting next to you. Look him in the eyes! Now I believe you’ll find a man willing to go that extra inch with you. You’ll witness a person who is willing to put his life on the line for this squad because he knows that when it comes down to it, you’ll do the same for him!

That’s a group effort, guy!

And, right now, either we heal as a group or we perish as individuals.

Guys, that’s football.

That’s all there is to it.

So, what are you going to do now?”

 

Rocky Balboa, Rocky Balboa, Rocky Balboa, Rocky Balboa, Rocky

“It’s hard to imagine, but you used to fit perfectly in here.”

“This child is going to be the greatest kid in the world,” I’d tell your mother as I held you up. This youngster is going to be better than anybody I’ve ever known.” And you grew up to be a lovely person. It was a pleasure to just observe you; every day seemed like a gift.

Then comes the moment for you to stand up for yourself and take on the world, which you did. You, on the other hand, altered somewhere along the way. You ceased to be yourself. You allow others to point a finger in your face and tell you you’re bad.

And when things became difficult, you began to hunt for someone or anything to blame, like a large shadow.

Allow me to share something with you that you already know. The world isn’t all rainbows and sunshine. It’s a cruel and unforgiving world that, no matter how strong you are, will bring you to your knees and hold you there indefinitely if you let it.

Nobody, not you, not me, not anybody, is going to strike you as hard as life. It’s not about how hard you hit, however. It’s all about how hard you can take a blow and keep going. How much can you absorb and yet go forward? That’s the way it’s done! If you know what you’re worth, now is the time to go out and grab it.

But you have to be prepared to take the blows rather than pointing fingers and claiming that you aren’t where you want to be because of him, her, or anybody! That’s what cowards do, and you’re not one of them! You’re more capable than that!

Whatever happens, I’ll always adore you. Whatever the case may be. You’re both my son and my blood. You’re the most wonderful person I’ve ever met. But you won’t have a life unless you start believing in yourself. Don’t forget to pay your mum a visit.”

 

5. Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator

“I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in becoming Emperor.” That isn’t my concern. I have no desire to govern or conquer anybody. If at all possible, I would wish to assist everyone – Jew, Gentile, black guy, white man. We all wish to assist each other. That is how humans are.

We want to be motivated by each other’s joy, not by one other’s sorrow. We don’t wish to loathe and hate one other. There is enough place for everyone in this planet. And the wonderful soil is plenty and can meet everyone’s needs.

Life may be both free and beautiful, but we’ve lost our path.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has erected a wall of hatred around the planet, and has ushered us into sorrow and murder. We’ve improved our speed, but we’ve also closed ourselves off. The machinery that creates plenty has left us in a state of scarcity.

We have become cynical as a result of our knowledge. Our cunning is harsh and nasty. We have a tendency to think too much and feel too little. Humanity is more important than machines. Kindness and compassion are more important than intelligence. Life will be brutal without these virtues, and all will be lost…

We’ve become closer thanks to the planes and the radio. The entire essence of these innovations shouts out for men’s goodwill, for international fraternity, for our collective oneness.

Even today, my voice is reaching millions of men, women, and little children throughout the globe, victims of a system that forces men to torture and jail innocent people.

I tell to those who may hear me, “Do not despair.” The current state of unhappiness is only the result of avarice – men’s hatred at the prospect of human development. Men’s hatred will fade, tyrants will die, and the authority that they stole from the people will be returned to them. And liberty will never die as long as mankind live. …..

Soldiers! Don’t surrender to brutes — guys who despised you, enslaved you, regimented your life, and told you what to do, think, and feel! Who drills you, puts you on a diet, treats you like livestock, and uses you as cannon fodder?

Don’t fall prey to these unnatural individuals — machine guys with machine brains and souls! You are not robots! You are not livestock! You’re males, right? You have humanity’s love in your hearts! You don’t despise!

Only the unloved and the abnormal are despised! Soldiers! Fight against slavery, not for it! Fight for your freedom!

“The Kingdom of God is inside man,” says St Luke in his 17th chapter, “not within one man, not within a group of men, but within all men!” You have it in you! You, the people, possess the ability to construct machines. The ability to bring joy to others! You, the people, have the ability to make this life beautiful and free, to make it a fantastic journey.

Then, in the name of democracy, let us put that power to good use – let us all come together. Let us struggle for a new world – a good one that gives men the opportunity to work, that gives youth a future and security to the elderly.

The prospect of these goods has propelled brutes to power. They, on the other hand, lie! They do not keep their word. They’ll never do it!

Dictators are free, but the people are enslaved! Let us now work to keep that commitment! Let us work to liberate the globe, to break down national borders, to eradicate greed, hatred, and intolerance.

Let us struggle for a world of reason, where research and development lead to the happiness of all mankind. Soldiers, let us all join in the sake of democracy!”

 

Summary
Here’s a rundown of the five finest motivating speeches in films:

Any Given Sunday – Al Pacino The Shawshank Redemption – Red Wolf of Wall Street – Jordan Belfort
Rocky Balboa, Rocky Balboa, Rocky Balboa, Rocky Balboa
Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator