154 Movie Quotes about Failure (+ Sound Clips) - page 10

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.

91 The emperor will not tolerate failure. And neither will I.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat (1995)

92 There are bound to be rejects.

George O'Hanlon as George Jetson in The Jetsons

93 Our mission was called a successful failure, in that we returned safely, but never made it to the moon.

Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

94 But I'm not in the slightest trouble. This is all part of a plan, a foolproof plan. -That cannot fail! -That cannot fail.

Harold Lloyd as Harold Diddlebock in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

95 How frustrating it'll be for my colleagues when they'll learn that I succeeded where they failed. I'd sure like to see their faces when they hear about it?

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

96 I don't want to offend you, but I'm forced to say I don't consider a record of failure automatically grants you the right to lead.

Clint Eastwood as Jonathan Hemlock in The Eiger Sanction

97 How can we have failed? It was a perfect plan with no escape. I don't see how it could be possible. How one of them could still live!

Quote from The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

98 Now, don't you do that. Don't infect him with the idea that it's okay to quit. That it's okay to be a failure, because it's not okay.

Stellan Skarsgård as Gerald Lambeau in Good Will Hunting

99 Why are you still so _in' afraid of failure?

Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting

100 He's a good kid. And I won't see you _ him up like you're trying to _ up me right now. I won't see you make him feel like a failure, too.

Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting