Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

我是谁，作为一个吉他手是由我的失败成为吉米亨德里克斯。

Who is great in faith won't be small in failure.

信仰伟大的人在失败中不会渺小。

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

为什么看着一个人沉沦会如此痛苦?因为这里面有一些不自然的东西，因为自然需要个人的进步、进化，每后退一步都意味着浪费精力。

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

为什么有人会对一个失败的老人感兴趣呢?

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

作家的障碍只是自我的失败。

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

我失败的真正原因是我没有动力去谋生。我没有动力。

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

除非你能接受失败，否则你不会有任何成功。

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

你不能披着失败的外衣爬上成功的阶梯。

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

你必须接受你可能会失败;然后，如果你尽了最大努力，但仍然没有赢，至少你可以为自己的努力感到满意。如果你不接受失败是一种可能，你就不会设立高目标，你不会拓展自己的领域，你不会尝试，你不会冒险。

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

在你的生活中，你会面对许多失败，但永远不要让自己被打败。

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

如果你墨守成规，就不会打滑。

You'll never be brave if you don't get hurt. You'll never learn if you don't make mistakes. You'll never be successful if you don't encounter failure.

如果你不受伤，你就永远不会勇敢。如果你不犯错，你就永远学不会。如果你不遇到失败，你永远不会成功。

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

在人生的舞台上，追求比输赢更重要。

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

你必须把苦味和酸味一起吃。

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

如果我继续把你的仆人们不得不听和耐心忍受的种种无礼的言词和待遇讲给你听，你会失去耐心的。