Sentence examples for failing myself from inspiring English sources

I suppose it's because I've had a lot more experience failing myself.

"I was failing myself, my family, society, because I couldn't do what every man was supposed to be able to do".

I was concerned that I was somehow failing myself by choosing a job at a summer camp, worried that by working in the woods for three months, I would be giving up any chance of progress or growth.

So I wasn't only failing myself, I was failing my lord… And that was—another religious term, I suppose, but soul destroying… I still have the sense of failure and so on, which was a constant spiritual exercise for me, and the just striving to you know, again, in these religious terms, to serve my god better.

(Group 6, male) So I wasn't only failing myself, I was failing my lord… And that was—another religious term, I suppose, but soul destroying… I still have the sense of failure and so on, which was a constant spiritual exercise for me, and the just striving to you know, again, in these religious terms, to serve my god better.

"I tend to think of alcoholism and depression as an illness in someone else and a moral failing in myself," she said.

Yet in the days when I would walk back to my dorm room after a secret Craigslist hookup on Palm Beach Island, I would find myself crying, feeling ashamed that I was failing those people, myself, and God.

— I admire this work; I wish I had written it myself; failing that, I understand it….

I had come to Iceland on a small research stipend, after three months of failing to support myself in New York.

The irony of my fight to save disability benefits for millions yet failing to qualify myself seemed to add a final dash of outrage.

But if Raphelson is "a self-portrait to some extent," Mr. Baitz said, so too is the play's art dealer, Fabricant, whose "not particularly competent attempt at self-promotion reminds me of a failing version of myself".