Top 250 Matthew McConaughey Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not.”

— Matthew McConaughey

2. “When you’ve got God, you got a friend. And that friend is you.”

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3. “There are three things, to my account, that I need each day. One of them is something to look up to, another is something to look forward to, and another is someone to chase.”

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4. “It’s a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.”

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5. “Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.”

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6. “I know who I am. And after all these years, there’s a victory in that.”

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7. “Life is a series of commas, not periods.”

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8. “There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.”

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9. “The best education I’ve had in my life is to travel.”

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10. “It’d be a lot cooler If you did.”

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11. “My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.”

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12. “The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.”

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13. “I want to thank God because that’s who I look up. He’s graced my life with opportunities. He’s shown me that it’s a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.”

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14. “Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.”

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15. “The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.”

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16. “I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don’t pay much attention to the past or the future.”

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17. “I’m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I’m not worried about how I’m perceived. Selfish has always gotten a bad rap. You should do for you.”

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18. “Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.”

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19. “So, to any of us, whatever those things are, whatever it is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to, and whoever it is we’re chasing, to that I say, ‘Amen.’ To that I say, ‘Alright, alright, alright.’ To that I say ‘just keep living.’ Thank you.”

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20. “Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.”

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21. “I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.”

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22. “My rule is to break one sweat a day.”

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23. “Try not to make a straight line crooked.”

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24. “I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.”

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25. “There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.”

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26. “You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.”

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27. “My best quality is that I’m a big hearted person. I’m resilient, too. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty of that to an extent. Everyone should be, I think – you need to respect yourself.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.”

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30. “I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.”

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31. “That’s what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.”

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32. “We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.”

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33. “We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.”

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34. “I never go online on my iPhone. Sometimes I’m tempted but I remind myself and the kids – it’s a tool. Use it as a tool. You’re not the tool. My iPhone, 85% of the time I’m writing down ideas.”

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35. “I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That’s the point. The only governor I give myself is what’s the time limit.”

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36. “I think it’s because we’re looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we’ve lost our sense of direction?”

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37. “They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they’re crying they need to do one of the three and they’re having trouble doing it. Real simple.”

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38. “I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.”

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39. “A drunk doesn’t try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.”

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40. “If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full – a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon’s waning.”

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41. “Catching greenlights is about skill: intent, context, consideration, endurance, anticipation, resilience, speed, and discipline. We can catch more greenlights by simply identifying where the red lights are in our life, and then change course to hit fewer of them.”

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42. “Me? I haven’t made all A’s in the art of living. But I give a damn. And I’ll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day.”

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43. “When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.”

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44. “There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.”

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45. “I believe the truth is only offensive when we’re lying.”

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46. “The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not ‘I know who I am,’ but rather ‘I know who I am not.’”

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47. “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. It’s a matter of how we see the challenge in front of us and how we engage with it. Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.”

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48. “The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.”

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49. “My father – who I know is up there right now, with a big pot of gumbo, he’s got a lemon meringue pie, he’s probably in his underwear, and he’s got a cold can of Miller Lite – and he’s dancing.”

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50. “Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.”

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