#success

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. ↗

— George Cukor

#any #failure #successes #unless #you

My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#any #before #controlling #desire #even

I am always successful in my work. ↗

— George Weah

#am #i #i am #successful #work

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

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ↗

— Colin R. Davis

#exactly #failure #road #same #success

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