Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 24 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Greenlights Quotes
We are going to make mistakes – own them, make amends, and move on. Guilt and regret kill many a man before their time.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
God, when I cross the truth, give me the awareness to receive it, the consciousness to recognize it, the presence to personalize it, the patience to preserve it, and the courage to live it.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
If we all made sense of humor the default emotion, we’d all get along better.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
We’re all storytellers in the movie business. That’s what we do. We play make-believe. And when we do it well, we make you believe.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Life is our résumé. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
The problems we face today eventually turn into blessings in the rearview mirror of life. In time, yesterday’s red light leads us to a greenlight. All destruction eventually leads to construction, all death eventually leads to birth, all pain eventually leads to pleasure. In this life or the next, what goes down will come up.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Knowin the truth, seein the truth, and tellin the truth, are all different experiences.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Knowing who we are is hard. Eliminate who we’re not first, and we’ll find ourselves where we need to be.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
We need finites, borders, gravity, demarcations, shape, and resistance, to have order. This order creates responsibility. The responsibility creates judgment. The judgment creates choice. In the choice lies the freedom.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
We cannot fully appreciate the light without the shadows. We have to be thrown off balance to find our footing.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Days of prosperity make us forget adversity. Good times seem out of reach during the bad ones. Both can seem like final destinations, the summation of our days. Then the cosmic joker plays with our ways, Yesterday’s condition no longer remains, All commas, no periods, all stops, no stays, the pleasure’s for rent and so is the pain.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Sometimes which choice you make is not as important as making a choice and committing to it.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
In Hollywood, if you pass on too many projects, they may quit asking. If you step out of your lane, and turn your back on what you’re successful at, the industry can turn its back on you. They don’t mind seeing you miss the bus because there’s plenty of people to take your seat. Again, it’s not personal, it’s just business.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
No one can live up to the pedestal we put them on if we always put them on one.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
We all have scars, we’ll get more. So rather than struggle against time and waste it, let’s dance with time and redeem it, because we don’t live longer when we try not to die, we live longer when we’re too busy livin.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
We need discipline, guidelines, context, and responsibility early in any new endeavor. It’s the time to sacrifice. To learn, to observe, to take heed. If and when we get knowledge of the space, the craft, the people, and the plan, then we can let our freak flag fly, and create.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
DNA and work. Genetics and willpower. Life’s a combination. Some get the genes but never the work ethic or resilience. Others work their ass off but never had the innate ability. Others have both and never rely on the first.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
We must learn the consequence of negligence – it’s not just what we do, it’s what we don’t do that’s important as well. We are guilty by omission.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
We are all made for every moment we encounter. Whether the moment makes us or we make the moment. Whether we are helpless in it or on top of it, the predator or the prey. We are made for that moment.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Common sense is like money and health, once you have it, you have to work to keep it.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Nobody gets in trouble for what they do, they only get into trouble when they get caught. The art is in gettin away with it. The outlaw don’t live on the edges, he lives in the center, cruisin through the slipstream.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Man is never more masculine than after the birth of his first child. Not macho. Masculine. After his firstborn, a new father’s head, heart, and gut are more aligned than they have ever been.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when we lie down on ours at night, no matter who’s in our bed, we all sleep alone.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
There’s a difference between art and self-expression. All art is self-expression. All self-expression is not art.
from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey