156 Movie Quotes about Failure (+ Sound Clips) - page 16

Updated: May 21, 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.

151 Since you have repeatedly failed to clean up this matter despite numerous warnings from me which I was in no way obligated to show...

Quote from The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

152 There's nothing in this world as strong as a good idea. Never has failed, never will fail. It cannot fail.

Quote from The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

153 And I just said to him he couldn't use you as an excuse for failure for the rest of his life.

Quote from Longstreet

154 If I fail, the Manchus won't capture me alive.

Quote from 36th Chamber of Shaolin

155 You fail and I'll have you tortured to death.

Quote from The Avenging Eagle

156 This is madness! It can't be done, it never can be done. It has been attempted. It has always failed.

Edgar Barrier as Charles Darnay in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)