157 Movie Quotes about Failure (+ Sound Clips) - page 12

Updated: Sep 2, 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.

111 What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.

Strother Martin as The Captain in Cool Hand Luke

112 Navigation failure. Do not engage hyper...

Quote from Lilo & Stitch (2002)

113 He's not a failure! You can't say that about my father.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

114 The cave. Remember your failure at the cave.

Quote from Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

115 A pretty plot for fairy tales, Sire. But in real life, oh, no. No! It was foredoomed to failure.

Quote from Cinderella (1950)

116 It's going to go 100-percent failure within 72 hours.

Quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

117 Would you say we have a reliable 72 hours till failure?

Quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

118 Still, it was his idea to carry out the failure mode analysis, wasn't it?

Quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

119 But their loss and failure is ours too.

Quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

120 And I've been rather a failure, haven't I?

Quote from Fist of Fury (The Chinese Connection)