uring President Barack Obama’s commencement address at ASU on May, 13, 2009, he said,
“ … You may have setbacks, and you may have failures, but you’re not done — you’re not even getting started, not by a long shot. And if you ever forget that, just look to history. Thomas Paine was a failed corset maker, a failed teacher, and a failed tax collector before he made his mark on history with a little book called Common Sense that helped ignite a revolution. Julia Child didn’t publish her first cookbook until she was almost 50. Colonel Sanders didn’t open up his first Kentucky Fried Chicken until he was in his 60s.”
With that in mind, we decided to compile some other memorable quotes about setbacks. This list is in no particular order. Can you guess who said what?
![Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-winfrey.jpg)
![Maya Angelou Maya Angelou headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-angelou.jpg)
![Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-roosevelt.jpg)
![Michael Jordan Michael Jordan headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-jordan.jpg)
![J.K. Rowling J.K. Rowling headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-rowling.jpg)
![Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-chanel.jpg)
![Michael Crow Michael Crow headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-crow.jpg)
![Ellen DeGeneres Ellen DeGeneres headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-degeneres.jpg)
![Charles Schwab Charles Schwab headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-schwab.jpg)
![Beyoncé Beyoncé headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-beyonce.jpg)
![Albert Einstein Albert Einstein headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-einstein.jpg)
![Arianna Huffington Arianna Huffington headshot](https://wpcareymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/just-for-fun-huffington.jpg)
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