Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

Everything costs something everyone pays

Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours