278 Life Lessons Quotes from Movies with Sound Clips - page 23

Updated: Sep 4, 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.

221 What is man's use? Why is he here? Why is he born at all? -To leave the world in some way better than he found it.

Quote from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

222 You make a million decisions that mean nothing, and then one day you order takeout that changes your life.

Meg Ryan as Annie Reed in Sleepless in Seattle

223 That's your problem. You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Rosie Odonnell in Sleepless in Seattle

224 Throwing everything under the bed with the crud is not cleaning up.

Quote from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

225 I'm sorry being popular didn't work out. -Well, it wasn't a total waste. At least I learned to say hello.

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

226 To live like a man, filled with petty fears? -Only the fearful can know the value of courage.

Quote from Ulysses (1954)

227 We progress and mature by fault.

Frank Thring in Ben-Hur (1959)

228 The past is always full of shadows. Don't ever forget that.

Quote from Duel of the Titans (1961)

229 Life is just like tyin' your shoes. 'Cause I've been over, around, under and through, life is just like tyin' your shoes.

Phil Harris as Patou in Rock-a-Doodle

230 Don't bother. I don't like you. I never did and I never will. -A lot of people say that and the first thing you know is they get married and live happily ever after.

Quote from Stalag 17 (1953)