Top 100 Setback Quotes
#1. The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.
Nick Baylis
#2. The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed.
Sue Atchley Ebaugh
#3. Fall has arrived and has already begun to put everything into a deep sleep; flies and other insects have suffered their first setback, and up in the trees and down on the ground you can hear the sounds of struggling life, puttering , ceaselessly rustling, laboring not to perish.
Knut Hamsun
#4. Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Les Brown
#5. Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.
Roderick L. Evans
#6. The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.
Richard Branson
#7. We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer.
Marcel Dionne
#8. It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. 'How best to turn this setback into an advantage,' he wondered silently.
Raymond E. Feist
#9. Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.
Ita Buttrose
#10. Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
Barack Obama
#11. Every setback is a setup for a comeback!
Joel Osteen
#12. Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth? That period of life when every sorrow seems permanent and every setback insuperable.
Vera Brittain
#13. What you think is a setback, is really a set-up for a greater comeback!
Joel Osteen
#14. Indecisiveness is the number one reason for failure. Lack of ability to make a decision in a timely manner causes most people to fail with their projects and plans. Identify this challenge and decide to no longer let it be a setback from your success.
Farshad Asl
#15. 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.
Jerry Gillies
#16. To call it a "setback" is like calling the Expulsion from Eden a minor misunderstanding.
Sharon Kay Penman
#17. Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.
Richard Davidson
#18. Are you worthy of realizing your dream? If you said yes, there is no short cut. You're going to encounter setback after setback until you realize your dream.
Assegid Habtewold
#19. Winners make every setback a floor to launch higher. Non-winners make every setback a ceiling to launch lower.
Orrin Woodward
#20. Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
Pat Conroy
#21. Tonight is not a setback. It's just a learning experience.
Aaron Rodgers
#22. Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.
Steve Harvey
#23. A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life's lessons.
Richard Branson
#24. If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're going to get out there into the world and they're going to hit some kind of setback, like everybody does, and they're going to get completely derailed.
Paul Tough
#25. Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.
Les Paul
#26. I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again.
Roselyn Sanchez
#27. Don't allow one setback to define you. Your true self is beyond measure. Success is a marathon, not a sprint. Move on to where you flourish.
Assegid Habtewold
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled President Obama's healthcare mandate is constitutional. This is a major victory for President Obama, who spent three years promoting it, and a major setback for Mitt Romney, who spent three years creating it.
Jay Leno
#32. 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.
John Roos
#33. Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
Zalmay Khalilzad
#34. The possibilities are endless, so never be discouraged by a setback, no matter how big.
Tommy Hilfiger
#35. If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.
Michael Owen
#36. We'd learned to open up to each other, to trust each other, to face the world together. I firmly believed now that there was nothing we couldn't tackle together. No hurdle, no obstacle, no setback was so large that it would break us apart, and there was comfort and confidence in that knowledge.
S.C. Stephens
#37. A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback.
Dennis Kimbro
#38. In fiction, every treachery and setback appears to serve some end: the characters learn and grow and come into their own. In life, it is not always clear that the hijacking of our plans is quite so provident or benign.
Azar Nafisi
#39. Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.
Philip Green
#41. The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback,
Candace Gingrich-Jones
#42. The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.
Abby Wambach
#43. The overall situation has now become clear the DPJ has suffered a great setback.
Katsuya Okada
#44. 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
#45. If sequestration takes place, that's going to be a great setback. We don't need to be having something like sequestration that's going to cause these job losses - over 170 million jobs that could be lost,
Maxine Waters
#46. If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress will be downplayed and every setback amplified. In this way, Democrats can continue to rely on lopsided black support at the polls.
Mona Charen
#47. For every setback, do not get discouraged. Rejoice because you learned more than you expected.
Debasish Mridha
#48. His spirits were too elastic to know the meaning of depression, and the setback had intriguing angles to it which he was broad-minded enough to appreciate as an artist.
Leslie Charteris
#49. Your career you will only hear the drum of setback but it is time to shine! Whatever situation you have been facing - this is the time you have been praying for to shine, to move, to overcome, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!
T. B. Joshua
#50. If you go all in and all out for the cause of Christ, there will be setbacks along the way. But remember this: without a crucifixion there can be no resurrection! And when you have a setback, you do not take a step back, because God is already preparing your comeback.
Mark Batterson
#51. Enjoy every blessing you can get from ever setback and quickly move on. Don't dwell too much on a setback. Don't miss out other blessings ahead...
Assegid Habtewold
#52. Two heads are definitely better than one and by brainstorming as a team and 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
#53. 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
#54. Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.
Napoleon Hill
#55. Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.
Brian Tracy
#56. Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they're more likely to pick themselves up and try again.
Paul Tough
#57. Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#58. A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.
Suze Orman
#59. I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.
John Kessel
#60. Every event has a purpose and every setback a lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather embrace it as the teacher it is.
Robin S. Sharma
#61. Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.
Maureen Johnson
#62. It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.
Beth Brooke
#63. When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs - even when it represents nothing more than a temporary setback.
Steven D. Levitt
#64. In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#65. His answer to every problem, every setback was "I will work harder!" - which he had adopted as his personal motto.
George Orwell
#66. I do not want you children to use my untimely death, or any setback that life may deliver, as an excuse not to take responsibility for yourselves.
Ethan Hawke
#67. In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.
Deepak Chopra
#68. Accept reality, but focus on the solution. Take that issue, take that setback, take that problem, and turn it into something good. Go forward. And, if you are part of a team, that attitude will spread throughout.
Timothy Ferriss
#69. But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.
Malcolm Gladwell
#70. Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.
Joel Osteen
#71. 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
#72. The financial and economic crash of 2008, the worst in over 75 years, is a major geopolitical setback for the United States and Europe.
Roger Altman
#73. If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.
Tim Tebow
#74. Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.
Stefan Zweig
#75. a setback is a setup for a comeback
T.D. Jakes
#76. Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.
Christina Aguilera
#77. Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.
Brian Tracy
#79. A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.
Noah Hawley
#80. 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
#81. Food comas - known as postprandial somnolence by people who liked to get bean up during recess - are fine when you're relaxing with friends or family, but they're a major setback when you have exams and papers to write.
Stefanie Weisman
#83. In the end, the photographer shot a close-up of Troy holding a photo of himself waiting in a much more interesting line fifteen years ago.
It was a humiliating setback for them as individuals and for the line as a whole.
Rainbow Rowell
#84. they would get praise for taking initiative, for seeing a difficult task through, for struggling and learning something new, for being undaunted by a setback, or for being open to and acting on criticism.
Carol S. Dweck
#85. Sometimes, if you are nervous, it could actually turn out to be a manifestation of your exhaustion. The point is that any setback is bad, but if you see it from a perspective, you'll recover.
Viswanathan Anand
#86. This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.
Don King
#87. You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.
Joel Osteen
#88. A key principle of success is to always refuse to let any setback in your life ... defeat you. Keep moving forward!
Timothy Pina
#89. As interference of two beams of light can strengthen or weaken each other,
then so does religious differences can be truly productive or a total setback.
Toba Beta
#90. Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.
Kevin Allen
#91. The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me - not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen - to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.
Suze Orman
#92. Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
#93. Who refuses to distinguish between setback and catastrophe; who worships accomplishment above all else and makes himself unbearable to others because he genuinely believes he can root out and reform every incidence of human fecklessness and mediocrity.
Michael Cunningham
#94. Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned - to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it. I can wait without a twinge of impatience. I can see a setback without being shaken, knowing that it is only temporary.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#95. I have fun running all the Virgin businesses, so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve
Richard Branson
#96. If you have a setback, Don't take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!
Tim Storey
#97. When a 'setback' brings a 'comeback,' that's grace in action!
Evinda Lepins
#98. I don't want you to feel depressed, honey. We've had a temporary setback.
Marilyn Monroe
#99. A few years later, in the midst of a brief academic setback, she trained him to act as her emotional cheerleader. I'd call and hear him in the background, screaming, "We love you, Lisa!" and "You can do it!
David Sedaris
#100. Failure and setbacks and struggles are where all the good stuff happens.
Teri McKeever
