154 Movie Quotes about Failure (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

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.

81 Therefore, Ted's father's own fear of failure has caused him to make his son the embodiment of all of his own deepest anxieties about himself. And, hence, his aggression transference onto Ted.

Keanu Reeves as Ted "Theodore" Logan in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

82 Failure is not an option.

Ed Harris as Gene Kranz in Apollo 13

83 O God of Fear, to you and against failure, I make sacrifice.

Richard Burton as Alexander The Great in Alexander the Great (1956)

84 You're an utter failure. You make me sick.

Stacy Keach as Sgt. Stedenko in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke

85 Unlike some of my other warriors, you never fail me.

Frank Welker as Megatron in The Transformers: The Movie

86 That bird is a guaranteed failure. Just like me.

Dave Foley as Flik in A Bug's Life

87 I was there the day the strength of Men failed.

Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

88 Is there any chance of success? -I do not know, but if you fail the Empress will surely die and our whole world will be destroyed.

Alan Oppenheimer as Falkor, Gmork, Rockbiter, Narrator in The NeverEnding Story (1984)

89 I'm gonna go ask directions to our next huge embarrassing failure.

Chris Farley as Tommy Callahan in Tommy Boy (1995)

90 You're a huge embarrassing failure.

Chris Farley as Tommy Callahan in Tommy Boy (1995)