re: What re the Greatest Motivational Speeches In The Movies?

"Mother Earth" in the Apple event spot on Tuesday.

I always like the Full Metal Jacket Marine Corps graduation speech. One of my absolute favorites.

Ben Affleck sales speech in Boiler Room. Both his introductory speech during the interview, then his second speech to shite on them for not selling enough.


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Pacino - scent of a woman

not sure if it's considered a motivational speech by most. But it motivated the leadership at that school.

There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball. -- Ty Webb, Caddyshack

Ending Scene from 300.

Xerxes gonna get his arse kicked.

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Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite! - Charlie Chaplin "The Great Dictator"

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, we're not here to indulge in fantasy, but in political and economic reality. America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions.

Now, in the days of the free market, when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company!

All together, these men sitting up here [Teldar management] own less than 3 percent of the company. And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-dollar salary? Not in Teldar stock; he owns less than 1 percent.

You own the company. That's right -- you, the stockholder.
And you are all being royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with their steak lunches, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes.

Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents, each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents

The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated.

In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you.

I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them!
The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good.

Greed is right.

Greed works.

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.

And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.

You Will Atone. Ned Beatty in Network

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Captain Miller: Mike? What's the pool on me up to right now?
What's it up to?
What is it three hundred dollars -- is that it? Three hundred? I’m a schoolteacher.

I teach English Composition in this little town called Addley, Pennsylvania.

The last eleven years, I've been at Thomas Alva Edison High School.

I was coach of the baseball team in the spring time.

Sergeant Horvath: I'll be doggone.

Captain Miller: Back home when I tell people what I do for a living, they think, well, that, that figures.

But over here it’s a big, a big mystery.

So I guess I've changed some.

Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much my wife is even gonna to recognize me whenever it is I get back to her -- and how I'll ever be able to tell her about days like today.

Ryan -- I don't know anything about Ryan.
I don't care. Man means nothin' to me. It's just a name.

But if -- you know -- if going to Ramel and finding him so he can go home, if that earns me the right to get back to my wife -- well, then, then that's my mission.

You wanna leave?

You wanna go off and fight the war? Alright. Alright, I won't stop you.
I'll even put in the paperwork.
I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
TOM HANKS-Cpt. John Miller, Saving Private Ryan

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Ground team, you're up that trail, you've got the grid coordinates.
Air team, you follow me down this creek.

Well, that's it... it's game time.

I had a speech prepared, but I guess I forgot it.

There are some lines from Julius Caesar. "If a man were to know the end of this day's business, ere it come; but it suffices that the day will end, and then the end is known.
If we meet again, well then we'll smile, and if not then this parting was well made".
GENE HACKMAN - Col. Jason Rhodes, Uncommon Valor.

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