Failure quotes

“I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.”
Tony Randall

“- Oogway: I understand. You eat when you are upset.
- Po: Upset? I'm not upset. Why, what makes you think I'm upset?
- Oogway: So why are you upset?
- Po: I probably sucked more today than anybody in the history of kung fu. In the history of China. In the history of sucking!”

Randall Duk Kim - Oogway
Jack Black - Po

“Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.”
Cary Grant

“I do not fail. I deliver.”
Michael Shannon - Richard Strickland

“There's no use in being scared of any of these big guys. The bigger they come, the harder they fall.”

Edward G. Robinson - Little Caesar, alias "Rico"

“Don't fear failure. Be afraid of not having the chance, you have the chance!”
Bonnie Hunt - Sally

“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”
Morgan Freeman

“I want you to concentrate. Failure is not an option.”

Beth Grant - Kitty Farmer

“Who came up with this ridiculous concept anyway? Resolve your entire life in one bold stroke? What if I fail? And I will. I'll fail. I'm telling you. I always fail. Then my whole life will be a complete failure.”
Charles Grodin - Harrison Winslow

“If you keep 'em under your thumb, they'll never end up in the gutter.”

Jim Cummings - Pete

“My mother always wanted to be a witch. But she didn't have the gift. It's not that I want to be the best. I'm just so tired of being the worst.”
Fairuza Balk - Mildred Hubble

“I learn from failure.”
Henry Winkler - Stanley Yelnats III

“In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.”
Dennis Dugan

“When Kipling said 'Treat failure and success the same, they are both impostors', he could not have been living in Hollywood.”
Lily Tomlin

“- J.T. Hawkins Jr.: You act like you gonna miss before you even kick the ball. See, we're gonna have to change your whole kicking philosophy. Now see, you kick it wide left, or wide right, but that ain't gonna get you home. The ball has got to go through the middle.
- David Childers: I know, coach.”
Chris Willis - J.T. Hawkins Jr.
Bailey Cave - David Childers

“- Josh: I didn't want to mention this with mom around but I know a place where all kids who have to repeat a grade get together. It's way beyond the Bluffs, high above the Pacific Coast highway.
- Sam: What do they do there?
- Josh: Jump off.”
Jacob Tierney - Josh
Noah Fleiss - Sam

“None of this is going to happen. You know why? Because you're ugly. I'm sorry to say it, but you're an ugly little girl. Just ask anyone.”

Earl Pastko - Mr. Skin (a.k.a. Satan)

“I like being a pessimist. It helps me deal with my inevitable failure.”
Edward Burns - Barry McMullen

“- Major Anya Amasova: I have never failed on a mission, Commander. Any mission.
- James Bond: In that case, Major, one of us is bound to end up gravely disappointed, because neither have I.”
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond
Barbara Bach - Major Anya Amasova

“You died a failure because you never tried.”

Robert Downey Jr. - Thomas Reilly

“- John Sculley: You're gonna end me, aren't you?
- Steve Jobs: You're being ridiculous. I'm gonna sit center court and watch you do it yourself.”
Jeff Daniels - John Sculley
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs

“You've never tried at anything. And if you don't try at anything, you can't fail.”
Kate Winslet - April Wheeler

“- Mary Mapes: How you're doing, Dan?
- Dan Rather: I'm stepping down as anchor.
- Mary Mapes: When?
- Dan Rather: After inauguration.”
Robert Redford - Dan Rather
Cate Blanchett - Mary Mapes

“Well... if I had a dollar for every time they've killed me in this thing, I wouldn't have to work for you, Deke... Well, we have two days, we'll be ready. Let's do it again.”

Tom Hanks - Jim Lovell

No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy. A motto of the British Special Air Force is: "Those who risk, win".
Orlando Bloom - Drew Baylor