Setback Quotes - Page 10

• Just like everything else in our lives, with the good comes the bad. It applies to success as well. Success isn't a destination, it's a journey - a journey that will be sure to come with lots of great achievements and lots of setbacks. You have the power to decide if those downsides are going to define you in a negative way or a positive way.

  Lizzie Velasquez

  Journey, Achievement, Negative

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• It should be appreciated that if the arrangement on Iran's nuclear program collapses after being so patiently negotiated, and successfully implemented since 2014 despite the intense opposition of Netanyahu's Israel and its American loyalists in Congress, it would be widely perceived around the world as a huge setback in the search for regional stability and the struggle to prevent any further spread of nuclear weapons.

  Richard A. Falk

  Struggle, Israel, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

  Niki Lauda

  Careers, Conclusion, Wells

  Source: www.european-business.com

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• We all have an emotional home that we keep coming back to. Even if a foundationally angry or sad person has a good job and good family, they return to their emotional home, especially when experiencing life's inevitable setbacks.

  Tony Robbins

  Jobs, Home, Emotional

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I hear that players tend to burn out of basketball, but I absolutely never had that experience myself. There were many times in my life where I got cut from a team I wanted to make, or didn't get playing time in high school, and even into college. But setbacks always inspired me to work harder, spend more time in the gym, play more, learn more, and watch more basketball.

  Ashley Graham

  Basketball, Team, Hard Work

  Source: awesomesportsproject.com

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• Whenever you have a few setbacks, the idea that half as many children are dying now as back in 1990 and so... it was over 12 million a year, now it's less than 6 million a year. We have a clear path to get that under 3 million a year and we know what to do. And this generation of young Africans is a very large group.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me - not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen - to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.

  Suze Orman

  Years, Bigger, Meant To Happen

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• We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

  James C. Collins

  Mistake, Choices, Defeat

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• In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.

  Katherine Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Growing Up, Thinking

  Katherine Schwarzenegger (2014). “I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There”, p.46, Crown Archetype

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• Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Hands, Helping, Realizing

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• We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.

  Karyn Kusama

  Fire, Creative, Curiosity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

  Ann Landers

  Perseverance, Maturity, Sweat

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• Everyone faces defeats, setbacks, reversals of fortune. But just like water wearing away rock, persistence triumphs. Resilience is one of the most important qualities I would look at in trying to predict who is going to be ultimately successful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Successful, Persistence, Water

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.

  Jonathan Adler

  Perseverance, Lying, Should Have

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• Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

  Daniel Goleman

  Persistence, Emotional, Enthusiasm

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.135, Bantam

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• The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally,
  and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Ideas, Want

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

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• It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

  Peter Lynch

  Would Be, Investing, Exit

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• A great champion deals with setback with a comeback.

  Donna de Varona

  Champion, Comeback, Deals

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• Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It’s about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life by the horns, and persevere amidst setbacks. They take control of their lives, instead of waiting for others to open up doors. In this very important sense, greatness is completely, utterly, made.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Greatness, Doors, Waiting

  "Geniuses Are Made, Not Born" by Scott Barry Kaufman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

  Martin Seligman

  Skills, Optimism, Deals

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.39, Vintage

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• Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Grateful, People

  "The Art of Peace". Book by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Adversity

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Believe, Fall

  Amby Burfoot (2009). “Runner's World Complete Book of Running: Everything You Need to Run for Weight Loss, Fitness, and Competition”, p.176, Rodale

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• Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’

  Oprah Winfrey

  Journey, Way, Smooth

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Persistence, Temporary Setbacks, Temporary

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