278 Life Lessons Quotes from Movies with Sound Clips - page 8

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.

71 Don't? Stop with the don't thoughts. Start with the do thoughts.

Morey Amsterdam as One Million BC in Rudolph's Shiny New Year

72 A handicap is what you make of it.

Dr. No in Dr. No

73 Today, we rest. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

74 And we lights the city. Not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there. Because we knows there'll come a night when they sees the distant light, and they'll be coming home.

Helen Buday as Savannah Nix in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

75 My soul is what I've already made of it.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

76 Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife, I love my life, and I wish you my kind of success.

Jared Jussim as Dicky Fox in Jerry Maguire

77 Now, others of us find that good, bad, right, wrong are many-sided, complex things. We try to see every side. But the more we see, the less sure we are.

Claude Rains as Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)

78 For two days I had it, and I went with it, too. It came easy, and it went just as fast. And that's the way I'd be if I had it. Easy come, easy go.

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

79 The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness. I'm quoting him.

Marlyn Mason as Nikki Bell in Longstreet

80 Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet