154 Movie Quotes about Failure (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 20, 2026

Memorable quotes about failure, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I thought you were gonna be the all-time champ, not the all-time chump.

Danny Devito as Philoctetes Phil in Hercules

2 It's too late! We're banished, genius.

John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan in Monsters, Inc.

3 Failure, eh? Take a look at that, you pompous windbag.

Helene Stanley as Cinderella in Cinderella (1950)

4 I don't... I don't believe it. That is why you fail.

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker; Mark Hamill as Jedi Master Yoda; Frank Oz as Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

5 I'm a failure. Complete loser. My one chance to impress Roxanne and I blew it.

Max Goof in A Goofy Movie (1995)

6 Oops. Looks like they missed.

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7 We were so close! So close. We tripped at the finish line. Why?

Tate Donovan as Hercules in Hercules

8 Your plan is failing. Just admit it.

Will Ferrell as Megamind in Megamind (2010)

9 But to make doubly sure you do not fail, bring back her heart in this.

Adriana Caselotti as Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

10 I mean most of them ended in horrible failure, but we won today. Didn't we, sir?

Will Ferrell as Megamind in Megamind (2010)