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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.

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.

— Jude Law

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

— Victoria Justice

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

— Wayne Dyer

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

— Penelope Ann Miller

I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.

— Lana Wood

That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.

— Taya Kyle

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

— Mika Brzezinski

✗Opposing Perspectives

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

— Dominick Dunne

Money and good life had never been my goal.

— Kailash Kher

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

— Steve Carell