Failure quotes
291 failure quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: The Dish
“Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.”
- From the movie: Free Enterprise
“Someone once said it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Succeed or fail, we must make the attempt, it's our nature.”
- From the movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
- From the movie: Excess Baggage
“- Emily: You got a girlfriend?
- Vincent: Nah, I gave that up.
- Emily: Why?
- Vincent: Because I always see the potential of failure.” - From the movie: Tapeheads
- From the movie: Stagecoach
- From the movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
- From the movie: Life Stinks
“I can get it all back. I was a financial genius. 1 and 1 is 2. 2 and 2 is 4. 4 and 4 is three. I still got it!”
- From the movie: The Ghost and the Darkness
“- Col. John Henry Patterson: Have you ever failed?
- Charles Remington: Only at life.” - From the movie: The Fly
“- Seth Brundle: It can't cope with the flesh. It only seems to work on inanimate objects; nothing that's living.
- Veronica Quaife: Why?
- Seth Brundle: Computers are dumb. They only know what you tell them... I must not know enough about the flesh myself. I'm gonna have to learn.” - From the movie: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
“- Walter Donovan: We're just one step away.
- Indiana Jones: That's usually when the ground falls out from underneath your feet.” - From the movie: Superman III
- From the movie: Runaway
“Congratulations, guys, you just staked out a roll of toilet paper.”
- From the movie: Broadcast News
- From the movie: Nixon
“Only when you've been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is on top of the highest mountain.”
- From the movie: Everyone Says I Love You
- From the movie: Cannonball Run II
“For one thousand centuries, the Falafel Family has ruled the deserts with one thing: speed! We had the fastest camels and the fastest horses. And now, due to... you, know what we have the fastest planes, the fastest boats, and the fastest cars. Except for one: yours! Last year, I sent you to America for one simple task. So simple. To emblazen...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: The Fly
“Something went wrong, Seth. When you went through, something went wrong.”
- From the movie: Arlington Road
“You can't ask government to be infallible, but you can ask it to be accountable.”
- From the movie: The Ghost of Frankenstein
“- Ludwig Frankenstein: Your dream of power is over, Bohmer. You didn't realize his blood is the same type as Kettering's, but not the same as Ygor's. It will not feed the sensory nerves.
- The Monster: Bohmer! You played me a trick! What good is a brain without eyes to see? What good is a brain without eyes?” - From the movie: What Dreams May Come
“Everyone's hell is different. It's not all fire and pain. The real hell is your life gone wrong.”
- From the movie: Quicksilver
“Sometimes things don't happen the way you planned, sometimes you could end up lower than you started.”
- From the movie: RoboCop 3
“- The CEO: Kanemitsu-San, I... I realize that it looks bad but, I mean, maybe our plans were overambitious. Let's start a skoshy bit smaller. Let's gentrify this neighborhood, build strip malls, fast food chains, lots of popular entertainment. Whadda you think? [to his aide] What'd he say?
- Kanemitsu's Aide: He said you're fired.” - From the movie: Educating Rita
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