154 Movie Quotes about Failure (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

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.

71 And I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool out of yourself and everything. But did you notice something? -What's that? -The world didn't come to an end.

Glenn Gilger as Linus Van Pelt in A Boy Named Charlie Brown

72 Oh. Well, I think it was as close to being a goal as it could be without being close at all.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

73 If I fail, please make sure that I have a decent burial.

Quote from The Green Jade Statuette (1977)

74 I have to report that our scheme for obtaining money was a failure, Your Excellency. Can you suggest some plan that might be more successful? -I think I can.

George Wallace as Commando Cody in Radar Men from the Moon (1952)

75 I have to report another failure, Your Excellency.

George Wallace as Commando Cody in Radar Men from the Moon (1952)

76 Maybe it will work tonight. It has failed many times before, but driven by an obsession that it can be done, he is unconcerned with failures of the past or dangers of the future.

Robert Lansing as Dr. Scott Nelson in 4D Man (1959)

77 They were built to fall apart. -Fall apart? -Yes. There was a phrase for it. Intentional falling apart, or something.

Kath Soucie as Tinselina in The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars

78 Congratulations. Another one of your genius plans has backfired on you.

Will Ferrell as Megamind in Megamind (2010)

79 If I fail, if I succeed, you can't take away my dignity-y-y-y-y..

Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem in Coming to America (1988)

80 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