What makes a person a failure? What qualities must they lack, what bad qualities must they have?

I suppose someone is a failure when they believe they are one. They're probably doing nothing of importance or mean much to anyone if they have to come to that conclusion in the first place.

Well... I think a person is a failure when they've thrown in the towel. There's no winning or losing in real life. The only imperative in life is to survive, by whatever means necessary. If a person kills themselves, they're a failure. Otherwise, they're just like everyone else, wading through the muck and hoping for the best.

End of the day, if you're still breathing, you ain't lost yet. All you have to do is get proactive about turning things around.

We all fail at something. Even Mugi has failed at things. A Failure is someone who falls down and doesn't get up imo.

The first thing that makes a person a failure, in my eyes, is when they abandon their sense of integrity and principles for something selfish and deplorable. The second is either just feeling sorry for themselves all the time, complaining about their situation and doing nothing to attempt to make things better, and/or trying to inflict pain on others because they want others to feel like they do.

You're a failure when you've given up.

I think id need a benchmark for what failure is, and then it depends on who is setting it and under what that criteria its based on. There are many people who i would see as failures based on my opinion, yet are seen as successful by others.

You're a failure when you start calling yourself a failure.

Or something.

the only thing i've ever failed in life so far is love. Have every thing else sorted out

This.

But more specifically.. when you've given up on yourself.

"You try and fail... Try and fail yet the only true failure is when you give up..."

Basically, what Moog said.

This too if you are talking about a fully failure person, not one is being a failure at a specific thing.

I actually consider myself a semi-failure, I've accomplish somethings like: Graduating from a horrible High School, learned how to edit and make videos on my own, did try to learn to fly and passed my conceal weapon license's class (just waiting to see if I get my license or not). However I have failed at: Getting a girlfriend (this I've completely giving up on, it's no longer worth it and I don't feel like dating anymore), losing wight (no matter how hard I try I simply can not lose it), joining the military and becoming a game designer.

there's no such thing as a failed person because that implies that there's such a thing as a successful person. the standards for both are so arbitrary as to be almost entirely meaningless.

people are people. just because you're a [censored]up doesn't mean you've failed at being a human being.