279 Life Lessons Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

11 Houston, we have a problem.

Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

12 I don't know what's out there beyond those hills, but if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

James Stewart as Wylie Burp in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

13 Take it from an old spectator. Life's not a spectator sport. If watchin' is all you're gonna do, then you're gonna watch your life go by without ya.

Mary Wickes as Laverne The Gargoyle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

14 I can't afford the luxury of anger. Anger can make me vulnerable. It can destroy my reason, and reason is the only advantage I have over them.

Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

15 One good turn deserves another.

Kathryn Beaumont as Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1951)

16 You see, in every job that must be done there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and snap! The job's a game.

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

17 It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry... and forget to live.

Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

18 But you must remember, Mowgli, greater love hath no one than he who lays down his life for his friend.

Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera in The Jungle Book (1967)

19 Old life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left, but all the time in the world to think about it.

Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd Red Redding in The Shawshank Redemption

20 Listen up! Use those big brains of yours and think your way around the problem. Look for a new angle.

Ryan Potter as Hiro Hamada in Big Hero 6

279 Life Lessons Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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