Setback Quotes - Page 2

• Setbacks and fear are inevitable.  The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

  Blake Mycoskie

  Motivational, Success, Obstacles

  Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.53, Random House

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• Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opposites, Benefits, Obstacles

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• Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.

  Nitin Nohria

  Tests, Way, Maintaining

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• The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Strength, Beautiful

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2014

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• I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete.

  Jessica Ennis

  Athlete, Thinking, World

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• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Character, Adversity

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• I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

  Allen Klein

  Adversity, Laughing, Essentials

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• Setbacks are just learning experiences.

  Beth Brooke

  Learning Experience

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• a setback is a setup for a comeback

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Success, Comeback

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• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

  Adam Schiff

  Beautiful, Faith, Dream

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• Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

  Robert Fulghum

  Long, Survivor, Kind

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• Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

  Denis Waitley

  Sight, Goal, Optimism

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• In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

  John Piper

  Joy, Believer

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• You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.

  Anthony Hamilton

  Dream, Pushing, Matter

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• I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

  Warren Mitchell

  Beauty, Choices, Healthy

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• Failures and setbacks are a part of this experience, and it will remain in you as wisdom.

  Ryuho Okawa

  Problem

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• Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Trying, Faults, Realizing

  "Servant of Peace: A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1953-1961". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1962.

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• Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Inspirational, Adventure, Perspective

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• Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

  Les Paul

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

  "The Man Before The Guitar: Remembering Les Paul At 100". "All Things Considered" with Joel Rose, kvcrnews.org. June 9, 2015.

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• If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

  Sam Donaldson

  Overcoming, Sticks, Wells

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• I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

  Bob Dole

  Thank You, Thankful, Thinking

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• New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

  Mao Zedong

  Difficulty, Grows, New Things

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• Setbacks help you to concentrate.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Helping

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• Setbacks in life are opportunities to perform at a new level.

  William Cranch Bond

  Opportunity, Levels

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