20 Growth Mindset Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 16, 2026

A selection of growth mindset quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 So, what I'm trying to say is that if I can change and you can change, everybody can change!

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV (1985)

2 In learning you will teach and in teaching you will learn.

Quote from Tarzan (1999)

3 I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

4 Big things have small beginnings, sir.

Claude Rains as Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia

5 It's called process. You never want to stop learning, because if you do... -You die, right? -In many ways.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

6 I don't know how, I don't know where, I don't know when. Boy, I sure don't know much. But I do know this is my responsibility, and I'm gonna do something about it.

Paul Winchell as Tigger; Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7 There's a benefit to losing. You get to learn from your mistakes.

Quote from Megamind (2010)

8 For every big mistake you make, be grateful. -Hear, hear! That mistake you'll never make again. No, sir.

Quote from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

9 Then it suddenly hit me. I do have a choice. I can be whatever I want to be.

Quote from Megamind (2010)

10 Everybody falls the first time. Right, Trin?

Quote from The Matrix