21 Movie Quotes about Life Moving Forward (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 23, 2025

Memorable quotes about life moving forward, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 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

2 I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

3 Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)

4 In headaches and in worry, vaguely life leaks away, and time will have his fancy tomorrow or today.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

5 The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

6 It's all right, children. Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it.

Quote from The Muppet Christmas Carol

7 Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the circle of life.

James Earl Jones as Mufasa in The Lion King (1994)

8 Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family.

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996)

9 But life goes on. It's an old story, the fight for love and glory, huh, Bob?

Quote from RoboCop (1987)

10 Life is beyond reason. That's why you must go on if it's only to fulfill your destiny.

Quote from Monsieur Verdoux