Movie Quotes About Failure
The silver screen: a place where heroes rise, villains fall, and dreams take flight. But amidst the triumphs and victories, there’s another potent ingredient woven into the cinematic tapestry – failure.
It’s the stumbles, the setbacks, the gut-wrenching losses that add depth and dimension to our favorite stories. And from the despairing whispers of fallen warriors to the defiant roars of underdogs rising again, movie quotes about failure capture the raw power of human resilience.
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote (Capote, 2005)
- “Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” – Alfred (Batman Begins, 2005)
- “It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey (Joy, 2015)
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill (The Darkest Hour, 2017)
- “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford (Meet the Robinsons, 2007)
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison (The Current War, 2019)
- “You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.” – Dale Earnhardt (Rush, 2013)
- “Every failure is a step to success.” – William Whewell (Ghostbusters, 1984)
- “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.” – Mary Poppins (Saving Mr. Banks, 2013)
- “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill (The King’s Speech, 2010)
- “Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.” – Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade (Scent of a Woman, 1992)
- “Sometimes life’s just hard, for no reason at all.” – Nicolas Cage (Happiness is a Four-letter Word, 2016)
- “Success is not about never failing. It’s about getting up after you fall.” – Ben Affleck (The Company Men, 2010)
- “The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.” – Deborah Moggach (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 2011)
- “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.” – Brené Brown (The Intern, 2015)
- “It’s not the face that makes someone a hero, it’s the heart.” – Chris Evans (Captain America: The First Avenger, 2011)
- “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.” – Michael Jordan (After Earth, 2013)
- “Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” – Morihei Ueshiba (Skyfall, 2012)
- “You learn more from failure than from success.” – Morgan Freeman (Evan Almighty, 2007)
- “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” – Elon Musk (Apollo 13, 1995)
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