Failure quotes

“Lesson seven: cultivate hatred; it is your greatest asset. Here at home, create a tour that no one can turn up to. Throw the groups name away, and leave a question mark in its place. Create confusion. The Sex Pistols made sure that they failed to turn up at certain venues. Reading false rumours wherever they could.”
Malcolm McLaren - The Embezzler

“Know this, if you fail, I will follow you the length of my days. And I will find you.”

Rutger Hauer - Navarre

“- Lorraine Danel: You've tried everything else and failed. No matter what you do, you'll always fail!
- Stephen Danel: I've never failed and I never will fail.”

Rochelle Hudson - Lorraine Danel
Peter Lorre - Stephen Danel

“- Dr. Steele: Oh God. The brain matrix. It's modeled after your own lower brain functions without the higher functions to control them.
- Coldyron: A brain without a heart... a conscience without recognition... a will without a soul.
- Dr. Steele: If I miss, you're going to be fighting your own base instincts. To combat pure will, you're going...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jayne Smith - Dr. Steele
Richard Gesswein - Coldyron

“Sixty percent of you will not pass this course! How do I know? Because that is an historical fact! Now for the bad news, I always like to get one quitter on the first day, and until I do, that first day does not end!”

Viggo Mortensen - Master Chief John James Urgayle

“Jesus was never meant to die. He failed.”
Patrick Brymer - Dr. Dwyer

“The high jump is a masochists event. It always ends on failure.”
Scott Glenn - Terry Tingloff

“Sometimes it's better to miss an opportunity than to invite disaster.”
Uwe Ochsenknecht - Stilgar

“Both my wife and daughter think I'm this gigantic loser and they're right, I have lost something. I'm not exactly sure what it is but I know I didn't always feel this... sedated. But you know what? It's never too late to get it back.”
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“When you flop in your country you end up in a coffin.”
George Raft - Joe Barton

“What a day. Felt like I couldn't sell ice water in the Sahara.”
John Goodman - Charlie Meadows

When you meet danger, you never think of anything except how you will circumvent it. The word "failure" does not even exist for you, while I... I think always: "Suppose I fail", and then I'm frightened.

Walter Szurovy - Paul de Bursac

“I'm thinking about my identity, and not having one anymore. I mean, who am I, if I'm not the man who's failing Emma?”

Jeff Daniels - Flap Horton

“I've given my life to art and from here on in, the only art I will get anywhere near are the pictures I draw on the pavement hoping passersby will throw nickels in my hat. I guess the long on the short of it: I wish I'd never been born.”
Peter MacNicol - David Langley

“If we fail, the flag of the United States will fail.”
Sam Waterston - Frank Canton

“- Capt. Logan: I spoke to your principal today, Ted. He said you're failing history.
- Ted: Me and Bill...
- Capt. Logan: He also said that if fail history, you flunk out of school. You know what that would mean, don't ya, Ted?
- Ted: That I would have to go to Oates Military Acadamy, sir.
- Capt. Logan: Uh-huh. I spoke to Colonel Oates this...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hal Landon Jr. - Captain Logan
Keanu Reeves - Ted 'Theodore' Logan

“- Sheriff Buelton: Ok Sambo, Ok... You win this one... But there's more than one way to skin a cat.
- Sfc. Ed Tippet, Provost Marshal's Office: You better believe there is, Jim.”
G.D. Spradlin - Sheriff Buelton
Dorian Harewood - Sergeant Tippet

“- Claudia Kishi: We have a tragedy here! I flunked science and I have to go to summer school.
- Jessi Ramsey: Aren't your parents going to kill you?
- Claudia Kishi: Maybe.”
Tricia Joe - Claudia Kishi
Zelda Harris - Jessi Ramsey

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants. The other is getting it.”
Stephen Fry - Oscar Wilde

“You're looking at a living legend, Lilly. The only active agent who ever lost a president.”

Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

They can't know the truth! The truth, you see, is bad! I will be branded with this mistake for the rest of my life! My children's children will walk down the street and people will point and say, "Look, there goes the spawn of Flik the Loser"!
Dave Foley - Flik

“- Stanley: Do you mind if I have another idea?
- Ollie: If it's anything like the last one, yes.”
Stan Laurel - Stan
Oliver Hardy - Oliver

“Inspector, your methods are unconventional to say the least. Oh, you get results. But often your successes are more costly to this department in terms of expenses and physical destruction than most other men's failures.”

Bill Reddick - Police Commissioner

“Wishing never got anybody anyplace.”

Clark Gable - Jack Thornton

“- Coco: I'm a professional. A few unkind words aren't going to bother me. I know it's not going to be all standing ovations.
- Hilary: Certainly not for you, my dear.
- Coco: Look, I'm not my dear! You can fuck my dear.”
Irene Cara - Coco
Antonia Franceschi - Hilary