Failure quotes
291 failure quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the animation: The Road to El Dorado
- From the movie: Mission to Mars
“- Woody Blake: Okay, people let's look sharp now. We're gonna run this simulation one more time. If we overshoot, there's no coming back.
- Phil Ohlmyer: Yeah, and drifting through eternity will ruin your whole day.” - From the movie: The Rules of the Game
“It's just unpleasant to be reminded what a failure I am.”
- From the movie: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
“In this sort of race, there's no silver medal for finishing second.”
- From the movie: The Illusionist
- From the movie: Hard Target
- From the movie: License to Drive
“- Les' DMV Examiner: Now Anderson, I want you to take a good look at my cup of coffee. Now, I love my coffee. It's probably the only thing I cherish on this god forsaken mud ball called Earth! What I'm trying to say, Anderson, is that most examiners rely on this clipboard, I don't believe in that shit. What I do believe is in my cup of coffee....” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: A Day at the Races
“- Dr. Hackenbush: I proposed to your mother once.
- Judy: But that's my father!
- Dr. Hackenbush: No wonder he turned me down.” - From the movie: Death of a Salesman
“Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, and tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Bright Lights, Big City
“There's a certain shabby nobility in failing all by myself.”
- From the movie: Elizabethtown
- From the movie: Young Sherlock Holmes
“I always suspected that becoming a friend of yours would end in disaster!”
- From the movie: Elizabethtown
“We are about to enter… A free-fall plunge. And the sound you hear is the sound of shit hitting the fan. Globally.”
- From the movie: Orange County
- From the movie: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“We trust in Heaven. God has never failed man. Only man fails God.”
- From the animation: Pinocchio
“Give a bad boy enough rope, and he'll soon make a jackass of himself.”
- From the movie: It's a Wonderful Life
“Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends.”
- From the movie: Roger Dodger
“Natural selection, now that is a principle of nature, selection, something has to lose, something has to be defeated in order for something else to be selected.”
- From the movie: The Jerk
- From the movie: Elizabethtown
“As someone once said, there's a difference between a failure and a fiasco.”
- From the movie: Saw III
“I let you make your own choices. I wanted you to succeed... you couldn't.”
- From the movie: Annapolis
“What kind of father wants his own son to fail?”
- From the movie: SpaceCamp
“- Andie: I can't believe it; I'm not going up. They chose Andy Miller instead of me... he gets airsick in cars!
- Commander Zach Burkstroom: That's why I married you, and not Andy Miller.” - From the movie: The Other Sister
“But Daniel, you didn't fail by much...just a smidge.”
- From the movie: Tremors
“Run for it? Running's not a plan! Running's what you do, once a plan fails!”
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