Movies with good/inspiring speeches or quotes

[sitzlejd 0]

Hey guys,

My boss wants me to build a montage of sorts to rally the troops at our sales meeting. He wants clips about adapting to change, trust, believing, overcoming, etc. Basically inspirational stuff. Any ideas? Of course there's Rudy, Miracle, etc. but I'm also looking for suggestions beyond the obvious.

Thanks everybody!

[furlanitalia 1]

Al Pacino - inches speech (from any given Sunday) was the first thing that came to mind.

[lampliter87 8]

Braveheart, Gladiator, 300, Friday Night Lights, Coach Carter, there are a ton out there... +1 on the Al Pacino.

Anything along these lines:

[Law Goalie 147]

Kenneth Branagh's HENRY V, Act IV Scene 3 - best inspirational speech ever written, and Branagh far outdoes Olivier i this scene (which is the only other movie version of any consequence).

Close second: HENRY V, Act III Scene 1.

[chippa13 1844]

Inject some humor into it, as well. A few great ones that come to mind are in Meatballs, Stripes, and Animal House

[adam14 182]

great moments are born from great oppurtunities... nobody!?

[sitzlejd 0]

Haha, yeah Adam I'm definitely using that one from Brooks.

And thanks, Chippa. I forgot to mention that I'm looking to use humorous clips as well.

Thanks, guys. Keep them coming!

[Drewhunz 3]

Blutos speech from Animal House.

[Chadd 916]

Blutos speech from Animal House.

Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[fawn111 0]

Some off the wall ideas

- The opening Monologue delivered by George C Scott in Patton

- Bill Murray whacking the flowers in caddyshack... Cinderalla Story

- The scene in Airplane where Leslie Nielsen does a spoof of the "just win one for the gipper" speech

- Anything by the Drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket

- I am my brothers Keeper speech from Jules in Pulp Fiction

- Al pacino in scarface..... Every Dog has his day

End the clip with this the last scene of Rocky training where he runs through the streets of Philly and ends it on the steps.... play that and the score that acompanies it.... might be all you need

[decoy 164]

Chris Farley -Motivational Speaker

[Law Goalie 147]

- Anything by the Drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket

NSFW does not even begin to describe the level of impropriety...

[Machinehead2k5 32]

Remember The Titans. We Are Marshall.

[Chadd 916]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Lhw4M-GTg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3E3bEH1Ov8

Nice little clip that can be used for adapting to change, about 2:40 or so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfxcq77FkdE

Nice compilation that someone already made

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=walnVJZ-_XQ

[Krev 86]

Could probably find an old radio broadcast of Churchill.

[Chadd 916]

Could probably find an old radio broadcast of Churchill.

Good luck finding one that is actually Churchill. Many of them were done by an actor

[number21 3]

Yoda! (Empire Strikes Back --"... Do or do not...")

I can't watch it at work (most video blocked) but some reference to a video of 40 inspirational speeches in 2 minutes comes up from google.

[Krev 86]

Could probably find an old radio broadcast of Churchill.

Good luck finding one that is actually Churchill. Many of them were done by an actor

Thats what I meant. Like, an old WW2 history movie that has an improv clip of this.

[Chadd 916]

Could probably find an old radio broadcast of Churchill.

Good luck finding one that is actually Churchill. Many of them were done by an actor

Thats what I meant. Like, an old WW2 history movie that has an improv clip of this.

Actually, many of Churchill's most famous radio speeches were done by an actor, not by Winie himself.

[GoHawks 0]

Any of Peter Finch's on-air rants in Network. Amazing movie.

EDIT:

dug up one of them, enjoy.

"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad."

[Jason Harris 31]

Lou Gehrig's speech echoing through Yankee Stadium.

[Darshu 0]

Kenneth Branagh's HENRY V, Act IV Scene 3 - best inspirational speech ever written, and Branagh far outdoes Olivier i this scene (which is the only other movie version of any consequence).

Close second: HENRY V, Act III Scene 1.

This. Can't beat the St. Crispin's day monologue for rallying the troops, literally.

[Blueandgold26 1]

- Anything by the Drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket

NSFW does not even begin to describe the level of impropriety...

Gotta love R. Lee Ermey

[eric42434224 1]

Gordon Gekko's GREED speech in Wall Street. One of my personal fav movies :)

And if youre in sales..... "Coffee is for Closers".

[sitzlejd 0]

Gordon Gekko's GREED speech in Wall Street. One of my personal fav movies :)

And if youre in sales..... "Coffee is for Closers".

Two of my favorites for sure.