301 Life Lessons Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 16

Updated: Jun 12, 2026

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

151 I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

Brad Bird as Edna "E" Mode; Edna E Mode in The Incredibles

152 Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Cate Blanchett as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

153 Got a lot of holes in the desert and a lot of problems are buried in those holes.

Joe Pesci as Nicholas "Nicky" Santoro in Casino (1995)

154 They're bugs, Wyatt. All that smart talk about live and let live. There ain't no live and let live with bugs.

Quote from Tombstone (1993)

155 I spent my whole life not knowin' what I wanted outta life, just chasin' my tail. Now for the first time I know exactly what I want, and who. And that's the damnable misery of it.

Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in Tombstone (1993)

156 You got a dream, you got to protect it.

Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

157 The point is that everyone has a bad dream once in a while. It's no biggie. -Next time you have one just tell yourself that's all it is while you're having it, you know? Once you do that, you wake right up.

Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson; Johnny Depp as Glen Lantz in A Nightmare on Elm Street

158 So if you have a nightmare, for instance, like falling, right? Well, instead of screaming and getting all nuts you say, Okay, I'm gonna make up my mind that I fall into a magic world.

Johnny Depp as Glen Lantz in A Nightmare on Elm Street

159 You? A coward? What are you afraid of? -Oh, mostly of life becoming too real for me, I suppose.

Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes; Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara; Scarlett Ohara in Gone with the Wind (1939)

160 In spite of all the little problems, it really is fun, isn't it? -No. But with every new day there's fresh hope.

Beverly D'Angelo as Ellen Griswold; Chevy Chase as Clark W. Griswold; Beverly Dangelo in Vacation (1983)