Quotes About Setbacks

Mature spiritual leadership is forged in the crucible of difficult conversations, the pressure of conflicted relationships, the pain of setbacks, and dark nights of the soul.

There's always going to be setbacks.

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

I've had a series of setbacks in my life, which I've written about.

I've always been passionate about movies, TV, and writing, and I've been working so hard at it for so long. There were lots of setbacks, but I loved it so much, there was no alternative.

I've had a lot of setbacks outside the ring.

I believe my past setbacks are part of what it takes to build a champion. After all, how can you fully appreciate winning without knowing what it's like to lose?

I think they've been baby bummers.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P's can stunt recovery: (1) personalization - the belief that we are at fault; (2) pervasiveness - the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and (3) permanence - the belief that the aftershocks of the event will last forever.

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.

Nor is there reference to an exodus in contemporary Egyptian sources. Such a reference is not really to be expected, however: Egyptian royal inscriptions avoided mentioning setbacks and defeats unless they were followed by victories, and administrative records from the time and place of the exodus have mostly perished.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Il n'y a pas de réussite facile ni d'échecs définitifs.

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

No actor can just have failures and no actor can just have successes.

A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.

I suffered a lot of setbacks when I started; I didn't have any work experience and no real confidence to go after the career that I knew in the back of my mind I really wanted. It affected my confidence as knock-back after knock-back left me feeling like I might never succeed.

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

In analyzing a series of setbacks, a key question to ask is Am I failing differently each time? "If you keep making the same68 mistakes again and again," the IDEO founder David Kelley has observed, "you aren't learning anything. If you keep making new and different mistakes, that means you are doing new things and learning new things.

The effects of high optimism on decision making are, at best, a mixed blessing, but the contribution of optimism to good implementation is certainly positive. The main benefit of optimism is resilience in the face of setbacks.

Las malas noticias a menudo vienen en racimos. Algunas amargas; la mayoría, pésimas