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

Updated: Apr 8, 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 O God of Fear, to you and against failure, I make sacrifice.

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

82 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

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

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

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

Frank Welker as Megatron in The Transformers: The Movie

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

Quote from A Bug's Life

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

Quote from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

87 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.

Quote from The NeverEnding Story (1984)

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

Quote from Tommy Boy (1995)

89 You're a huge embarrassing failure.

Quote from Tommy Boy (1995)

90 The emperor will not tolerate failure. And neither will I.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat (1995)