"Try not. Do- or do not. There is no try."

"Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous."

“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”

"The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

“Experience is not what happens to a man, it’s what a man does with what happens to him.”

“Losers are people who are so afraid of not winning, they don't even try.”

"Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.”

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."

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Good advice can come from anywhere, and though most people turn to books and experts, movies also have their fair share of wisdom to impart to their audience. Movies are filled with advice about love, careers, money and family. And like people, you wouldn't turn to certain movies for certain types of advice: you wouldn't watch The Godfather hoping for nonviolent negotiating tips, you wouldn't watch the Indiana Jones trilogy trying to glean love advice and you wouldn't watch The Wolf of Wall Street to find your moral center. There are plenty of movies to choose from depending on the subject you need to research, and good advice can even come from average or bad movies. Here are fifteen different quotes, all from different movies, that shed some light on life, the time we are given and how we should spend it:
"Try not. Do- or do not. There is no try." -Yoda, Star Wars: Episode V-The Empire Strikes Back
"Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous." -President Snow, The Hunger Games
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." -Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world... is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs, Almost Famous
"If you're good at something, never do it for free." The Joker, The Dark Knight
"The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you." Bob Harris, Lost In Translation
"A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults." Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather
"Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him." George, A Single Man
"Wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth." Juror #8, 12 Angry Men
"Losers are people who are so afraid of not winning, they don't even try." Edwin Hoover, Little Miss Sunshine
"The older you get, the more rules they are going to try and get you to follow" Wooderson, Dazed and Confused
"Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere." Van Wilder, in Van Wilder
"You must always have faith in people but most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself." Elle Woods, Legally Blonde
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it." Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, H arry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss." Benjamin Button in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
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Good advice can come from anywhere, and though most people turn to books and experts, movies also have their fair share of wisdom to impart to their audience. Movies are filled with advice about love, careers, money and family.

The Best Pieces Of Life Advice From Movies

YODA - STAR WARS

PRESIDENT SNOW - THE HUNGER GAMES

THE JOKER - THE DARK KNIGHT

BOB HARRIS - LOST IN TRANSLATION

GEORGE - A SINGLE MAN

EDWIN HOOVER - LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

VAN WILDER

BENJAMIN BUTTON

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