Legacy Worthy Film & Movie Quotes

Explore iconic movie quotes and matching wisdom from notable figures. Discover reflections on choice, destiny, and life’s meaning. Watch the 7-minute video.

Legacy Worthy Film & Movie Quotes

Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
I don’t want you to think of this as just a film — some process of converting electrons and magnetic impulses into shapes and figures and sounds.

• Alan Turing: “Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”

Swimming with Sharks (1994)
No, listen to me. Shut up, listen, and learn.

• Epictetus: “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”

The Matrix (1999)
Remember, all I’m offering is the truth — nothing more.

• Socrates: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

Star Trek (2009)
You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you’re facing is: Which path will you choose?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ghost Rider (2007)
Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence.

• Jean-Paul Sartre: “We are our choices.”

When you act without thinking, you’re not making the choice — the choice is making you.

• Viktor Frankl: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
It is our choices that show who we truly are. This is something only you can decide.

• Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

The Iron Giant (1999)
No lifeguards are watching anymore. You’re on your own. You’re your own person, and the decisions you make now are yours — and yours alone — from here until the end.

• Eleanor Roosevelt: “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.”

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really: Get busy living, or get busy dying.

• Henry David Thoreau: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Everything that has a beginning has an end.

• Seneca: “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

Gladiator (2000)
Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

• Marcus Aurelius: “You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

Troy (2004)
Because we’re mortal — because any moment might be our last — everything becomes more beautiful. We’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

• Emily Dickinson: “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force.

• Kahlil Gibran: “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Nothing ever truly dies — the universe wastes nothing. Everything is simply transformed.

• Albert Einstein: “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”

The Lion King (1994)
Our lives are streams flowing into the same river. And so we are all connected in the great circle of life.

• Chief Seattle: “All things share the same breath — the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.”

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Don’t be afraid, sweetheart. You cannot escape your destiny. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

• Lao Tzu: “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

Forrest Gump (1994)
Life is like a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you’re gonna get.

• Helen Keller: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

• John Lennon: “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

• Mark Twain: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

Ratatouille (2007)
This is the way things are. You can’t change nature. Change is nature.

• Heraclitus: “Change is the only constant in life.”

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

• Abraham Lincoln: “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. But the second mouse? He struggled so hard that he eventually churned the cream into butter — and walked out.

• Winston Churchill: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

Quantum of Solace (2008)
Take a deep breath. You’ve only got one shot. Make it count.

• Maya Angelou: “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

Youtube video 2011 by Ashish Saheta:  The films used, in order of appearance: Pirates of Silicon Valley Swimming with Sharks The Matrix Star Trek (2009) Ghost Rider Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The Iron Giant Lions for Lambs The Shawshank Redemption The Matrix Revolutions Dead Poet’s Society Gladiator Troy The Matrix Reloaded Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) The Bucket List The Lion King Forrest Gump Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Ferris Beuler’s Day Off The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ratatouille Terminator 2: Judgment Day Catch Me If You Can Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Batman Begins Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Hitch Phenomenon The Pursuit of Happyness The Men Who Stare at Goats Bicentennial Man The Incredibles Under the Tuscan Sun Kung Fu Panda K-Pax Quantum of Solace