Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.
When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.
When people get in trouble with addiction, it's because they're holding themselves to too high a standard and because they're not meeting it, they have to punish themselves, and it turns into this cycle of failing and falling lower and lower.
I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.
