151 Movie Quotes about Failure (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Jul 22, 2025

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.

21 Your faults as a son is my failure as a father. Come.

Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000)

22 I got a message for you from Gemini Control. You can start packing up because the mission has been scrubbed! Repeat! The mission has been scrubbed! Over and out!

Walter Matthau as Whiplash Willie Gingrich in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

23 With deep shame and regret, I admit to you the failure of a member of the Japanese staff.

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

24 Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife, I love my life, and I wish you my kind of success.

Jared Jussim as Dicky Fox in Jerry Maguire

25 Siblings, let us not be down on it. One total catastrophe like this... is just the beginning! Their glorious deaths shall unite us all!

Graham Chapman in Monty Python's Life of Brian

26 If I fail tomorrow, God, I hope, will have mercy on me. For nobody else will.

Christopher Plummer as Duke Of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

27 Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

28 'Failure.' F-a-i-l-u-r-e. 'Failure.' I did it, I did it!

Peter Robbins as Charlie Brown in A Boy Named Charlie Brown

29 It won't work, Dusty. You got the right numbers in the wrong game.

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

30 Well, of course it won't be easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is. That is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

151 Movie Quotes about Failure (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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