Failure Quote by Conan O'Brien

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept…

— Conan O'Brien

“In O’Brien’s words, “It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.”

— Austin Kleon

Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as…

— Judith Viorst

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who…

— Steven Pressfield

Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.

— Mark Victor Hansen

“Let's get real about the ideal. It sucks. It doesn't represent us, and it doesn't even try to. It refuses to acknowledge that people…

— Megan Jayne Crabbe

“Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

It's through our unique flaws that our individuality can be expressed.

— David Trumble

The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you…

— Neville Goddard

“Idealism, however impractical, gives a meaning to our existence.”

— Anirban Bose

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Who we are and what we are is OUR vision. That we are what others and the world expect us to be is our…

— James Patrick Lane