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

Updated: Oct 26, 2025

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 The one characteristic which distinguished man from the animal kingdom was the spirit of self-sacrifice. And you have that quality.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

152 People have a tendency in life to always want to rush into things.

Eddie Murphy as Sherman Klump, Buddy Love, Cletus Klump, Mama Anna Klump, Grandma Klump, Ernie Klump Sr., Lance Perkins in The Nutty Professor (1996)

153 Difficult? Why, look here, changing from bad to good is as easy as taking your first step.

Mickey Rooney as Kris Kringle in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)

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

Brad Bird as Edna E Mode in The Incredibles

155 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)

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

Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in Tombstone (1993)

157 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)

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

Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

159 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 in A Nightmare on Elm Street

160 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

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

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