#success

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#first #first time #going #i #love

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? ↗

— Jessamyn West

#her #man #measured #my soul #my time

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#better place #just #make #people #place

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#curtain #deep #deep south #early #effect

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#really #shorts #sometimes #success #you

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#anxiety #brothers #burden #came #career

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#capacity #carrying #cured #exhaustion #experimental

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. ↗

— Bill Owens

#doing #ensuring #everyone #guiding #leadership

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#building #business #couple #daddy #dollars

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#assistance #benefit #christ #desires #feels