The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.
FAILURE, CERTAINLY A FORM OF SUCCESS
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
FAILURE, IT INCREASES YOUR DESIRE TO MAKE SOMETHING