Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

我们人生的事业不是要成功，而是要保持良好的精神状态，不断地失败。

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

我们最大的光荣不在于从不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来。

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

我们的经理们没有那样的成功——唱片公司没有，我们也没有——当时的感觉是，下一张唱片必须更大，如果不是这样，那就是某种失败。

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

坚持可以把失败变成非凡的成就。

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

慈善殖民是失败的。民族殖民将会成功。

Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

礼貌。当你在其他方面都失败了，剩下的就是对人好。

Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement.

被拒绝并不意味着失败。拒绝是一个提醒，总是有改进的空间。

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

记住，失败是一个事件，而不是一个人。

Remember that failure is not the opposite of success but part of it

记住，失败不是成功的对立面，而是成功的一部分

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

“记住我即将死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要的帮助我做出人生重大抉择的工具。因为几乎所有的事情——所有的外部期望、所有的骄傲、所有对尴尬或失败的恐惧——在死亡面前都会消失，只留下真正重要的东西。

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

不安是不满，不满是进步的第一需要。给我一个完全满意的人，我就给你一个失败的人。

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

学校不允许失败，但失败是任何努力的一部分，不仅仅是写作。

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

自我破坏是你能做的最聪明的事，如果你正在破坏一个不是真正的你的自我。

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

所以我试着对自己的成功或失败没有任何实际的期望。

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

很多人的财务梦想都因未能按照良好的意愿行事而受挫。