I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.
Quotes about setbacks (16 Quotes)
Wes has always been a competitor. He's had a couple setbacks with his career. I knew Wes could play. It was a matter of getting him in shape and on the court. He runs the team well. People feed off his energy and natural leadership ability.
We view the terminations of CBI's CEO and COO as near-term setbacks, but do not believe that CBI's story is broken on a longer term and more fundamental level. CBI's fundamentals remain very strong, in terms of cash balance, ability to generate positive free cash flow, backlog, and pipeline of prospective awards, which we believe will weather and outlast any near-term setbacks that investors are likely to attach to the managerial changes. We firmly believe that CBI will regain lost ground on the back of its strong fundamentals, as has been in the case in the past.
Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.
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.
I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
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.
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.
And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.
We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.
I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people said I wasn't good, nobody said, 'Come here, baby, we're going to make you a star.' Early on, when I'd say, 'Can I do some anchoring' people would look at me like I was crazy.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.