Quotes About Setbacks

I've failed you, he said. You just stopped the boy. That's not what I meant. I know what you meant, Oliver. You count too many things as failures when they are merely setbacks. She beckoned him up, and he stood, still intimately close to her. She didn't seem bothered. I feel safer with my old enemy beside me.

Everybody has their days of misfortune.

Failure results from bad breaks.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Over the years, I've had torrid luck with things going wrong.

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

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.

Everytime I'm being positive life comes and smacks me dead in the face and takes me all the way back to negative .

Remember That Success Can Take Months—or Years—to Achieve but Can Be Undone in Minutes.

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

And since human minds are very good at finding patterns, and ours had recently shifted from looking for bad luck to looking for good, we wrote off setbacks as expected, rather than proof of misfortune.

I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.

Who I am today is what experience, obstacles and setbacks I have gone through, without them I wouldn't be as effective a leader I am today.

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.

the two steps back (the falling) are as important as the three steps forward.

But when you're extra scared or fatigued or discomfortable, some other bad thing is bound to happen. The past two days confirm this theory: a flat tire, a stickup, and a bad fall. The Morton Salt girl had it right. When it rains, it damn well pours.

We all know individuals who can transform hopeless situations into challenges to be overcome, just through the force of their personalities. This ability to persevere despite obstacles and setbacks is the quality people most admire in others, and justly so; it is probably the most important trait not only for succeeding in life, but for enjoying it as well.

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Let us all remember that it is not our own reputations that are at stake in the missions to which we are called. It is His. The successes and the setbacks are His. It is His rejection, His reception—not ours. These