19 Growth Mindset Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

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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 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

3 Big things have small beginnings, sir.

Claude Rains as Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia

4 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)

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

Tony Goldwyn as Tarzan in Tarzan (1999)

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

Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

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

Will Ferrell as Megamind in Megamind (2010)

8 Everybody falls the first time. Right, Trin?

Keanu Reeves as Thomas A. Anderson in The Matrix

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

Will Ferrell as Megamind in Megamind (2010)

10 Let me tell you something, kid. Now, for a 45-minute fight, you gotta train hard for 45000 minutes. Forty-five thousand. That's 10 weeks. That's 10 hours a day. You listening? And you ain't even trained one.

Burgess Meredith as Mickey Goldmill in Rocky II