Setback Quotes - Page 5

• A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

  Evander Holyfield

  Way, Comeback

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2017

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• Depending on the day or even the hour, productivity can take very low dips. At times, I may feel like throwing in the towel. I love being inspired by amazing women who have achieved great things. When I have a setback, I will spend 15 minutes reading quotes from strong women or reading or watching an interview with a woman I admire (a gold medalist or a CEO). This gets me back in the right mindset to tackle any challenge.

  Samantha Ettus

  Strong Women, Reading, Love Is

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• Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of infirmity/ setback/ poverty - BE OPENED, in the name of Jesus Christ!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Names, Devil

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• It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Lines, Used

  "Timequake". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 9, p. 38), September 22, 1997.

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• coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.

  David Mermin

  Art, Writing, Discipline

  N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.

  Madeleine Albright

  America, Iran, Political

  "Secretary of State Albright Announces Easing of U.S. Trade Ban on Iran". Speech at CNN, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2000.

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• When you honor God, the storms may come, but you have a promise that others don’t have: When it’s all said and done, you’ll still be standing. You may suffer a setback, but don’t get discouraged. If you’ll stay in faith, God promises that when the smoke clears, when the dust settles, you won’t be the victim, you’ll be the victor.

  Joel Osteen

  Dust, Honor, Promise

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• These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.

  Cedric Richmond

  Past, Years, Cities

  "Remembering Hurricane Katrina" by Cedric L. Richmond, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.

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• If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Challenges, Delay

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• The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Growth, Events

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

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• Two heads are definitely better than one and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Jobs, Inspiration, Artist

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a part of any creative action. You can ignore the doubters and critics. You will then feel personally committed to solving the problem and will not rest until you do so.

  Robert Greene

  Hard Work, Creative, Doubters

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.179, Penguin

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• You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

  Robin Sharma

  Mistake, Suffering, Made

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.19, Jaico Publishing House

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• I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

  Serena Williams

  Winning, Victory, Rewards

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• I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from.

  Susan Wojcicki

  I Have Learned

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• Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Goal, Raw Materials, Purpose

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.221, Modern Library

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• Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Country, Suffering, Tragedy

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• The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Difficult, Temporary Setbacks, Hard

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

  George Orwell

  Answers, Problem, Motto

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Gratitude, Responsibility, Development

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• Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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• I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.

  Harry S. Truman

  Adversity, Gave Up

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• During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

  Lance Armstrong

  Rain, Fighting, Hands

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• I have had fun running all of the Virgin businesses, so I never see a setback as a bad experience; it is just a learning curve.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Fun, Business

  "Richard Branson: Five Questions On Business Philosophy" by Richard Branson, www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2010.

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