659 Movie Quotes about Working On Yourself (Sound Clips) - page 11

Last updated on: August 31, 2025

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

101 Look, I'm trying to learn how to fight, not how to think.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

102 You have a quarrelsome mind. Unless you learn how to calm it, you will never hear the world outside.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

103 It's funny that out of a martial art, out of combat, I feel something peaceful, something without hostility. Almost as though if I knew Jeet Kune Do, it would be enough simply to know it, and by knowing it, never have to use it.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

104 There's so much to remember. -If you try to remember, you will lose. Empty your mind.

Quote from Longstreet

105 To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

106 We are not going to be great. We are not going to be amazing. We are going to be amazingly amazing!

Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

107 A warrior in 16th-century Japan sat under an icy waterfall with his arms above his head like this without moving for 86 hours. -Why'd he do that? -I can't imagine.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

108 It's called process. You never want to stop learning, because if you do... -You die, right? -In many ways.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

109 We'll never fit through there. -You have to make your body conform to the space that you're in. You can do it when you have to do it.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

110 Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make you grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky (1976)

659 Movie Quotes about Working On Yourself (Sound Clips) - page 11

101 Look, I'm trying to learn how to fight, not how to think.

102 You have a quarrelsome mind. Unless you learn how to calm it, you will never hear the world outside.

103 It's funny that out of a martial art, out of combat, I feel something peaceful, something without hostility. Almost as though if I knew Jeet Kune Do, it would be enough simply to know it, and by knowing it, never have to use it.

104 There's so much to remember. -If you try to remember, you will lose. Empty your mind.

105 To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.

106 We are not going to be great. We are not going to be amazing. We are going to be amazingly amazing!

107 A warrior in 16th-century Japan sat under an icy waterfall with his arms above his head like this without moving for 86 hours. -Why'd he do that? -I can't imagine.

108 It's called process. You never want to stop learning, because if you do... -You die, right? -In many ways.

109 We'll never fit through there. -You have to make your body conform to the space that you're in. You can do it when you have to do it.

110 Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make you grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.

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