Who says that watching TV is good for nothing? I guess it really depends on your mindset at the time you are watching TV. Believe me, I love action flicks just like the next guy and that is what I watch most of the time, but there are often lines within these movies that resonate with me. Being involved in the personal development industry, I pick up on lines that others might not think of as such a big deal.
So I was watching Batman Begins the other day for probably the 20th time, and two lines from the movie jumped out at me!
- “Why do we fall? So we can pick ourselves back up.”
- “It’s not who you are underneath…It’s what you do that defines you!”
If you remember, Bruce Waynes Father used to tell him the first quote. Rachel, the supposed girlfriend, shared the second quote with Bruce as he was walking out of a restaurant with a few ladies after taking a dip in their fountain.
“Why do we fall? So we can pick ourselves back up.” It is human nature to fall, but also human nature to get back up and in the process, we grow, we get stronger and we learn to adapt. When walking down the street you happen to trip and fall, sure it’s a little embarassing and it may hurt a little, but you pick yourself back up and move on. The pain and embarassment are temporary and will go away. It is amazing to me that some people will burro down inside that moment and allow it to influence their entire lives, careers, relationships, etc. No single event will ever influence the outcome of your life. Your life’s success is determined by many events, whether successful or not, that is up to you!
“It’s not who you are underneath…It’s what you do that defines you!” So if I think I am a leader, people will automatically follow me? If I think I am a millionaire, I am? I feel like I am a good person, why can’t others see it? So many of us probably view ourselves differently than the rest of the world views us. I think I am the best basketball player in the state of Arizona, but do my actions on the court support that? I want to help so many people and I pray for that every day but have I actually taken a meal to someone in need or offered shelter to someone without it?
There is a huge gap between knowing and doing. Sure, you can know that you are a great and giving person, but until you actually do something to show that, it is all worthless. Too many people think rather than do. Your true greatness will remain underneath if you don’t do something to define it!
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I love the second quote and have used it in the past. I agree that Batman Begins is such an inspirational movie. Not just the quotes, but the movie itself. The fight to persevere, finding help when you need, when realizing you have others who have always been there for you, and so much more.
Great quotes from one of my favorite movies. Too many people these days are sayers and not doers. Want in one hand and spit in the other right. etc. A lot of the new movies out these days seem to be pushing a get off your but and start doing theme. Including transformers and others. Just like your site.
You are exactly right. The movies are a little more uplifting and for the most part, focus on a positive, take action kind of theme. I just hope that everyone is catching on to the message…you know!?
thanks for sharing these wonderful quotes,
while coincidentally, THIS is what I really need, to answer all my life’s problems!
so who says that movie is doing no good?