#success

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#chosen #course #get #i #i am

said Father Nash “was a most wonderful man in prayer, one of the most earnest, devout, spiritually-minded, heavenly-minded men I ever saw. . . . He labored about in many places in central and northern New York, and gave himself up to almost constant prayer, literally praying himself to death at last. I have been informed that he was found dead in his room in the attitude of prayer. ↗

— Charles Grandison Finney

#father-nash #his-intercessor #his-success #attitude

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#channels #fully #grace #held #i

Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#before #being #choices #cultural #felt

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil. ↗

— Marc Davis

#animated #business #cartoonists #draw #film

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#cost #could #everything #friends #grow

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#clan #due #each #guys #kid

Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define you. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#excellence #higher-living #success #beauty

Nothing succeeds like success. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#like #nothing #succeeds

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there. ↗

— Max Lerner

#deeply #despite #effort #failing #get