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Quotes About Setback

I've known guys who've got knocked out and they get back in there too soon, next thing you know they get clipped and they're out again.
~ Stephen Thompson
There is no doubt that the Mindset failure is a major setback for Axovant, but it is not the end of the road.
~ Vivek Ramaswamy
It's no fun when you lose.
~ Archie Manning
That was a temporary setback," Zippo said. "If you call an opportunity to take stock and really think about how you can make your life better a 'setback.
~ Colson Whitehead
Unfortunately, my football career wasn't very long. The reason I finished playing was because I fractured both ankles in a matter of months.
~ Bradley Walsh
Until Charlie broke his ankle in Toronto, we were as good a unit as anybody.
~ Marcel Dionne
Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.
~ Janine di Giovanni
Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.
~ Anderson Silva
My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.
~ Lari White
And the thing about healing is sometimes you feel like you're making daily progress, and then, from nowhere, your legs get taken out, and you feel like you start again.
~ Ant Anstead
Every decision, setback, or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being you are.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure.
~ Walter Isaacson
You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
He said that history takes two steps forward and one step back.
~ Jane Goodall
Growing up, we were very similar, but Steven got a bad injury. It set him back a year. But for that, we would have progressed at the same time.
~ Ryan Sessegnon
Losing definitely does stink.
~ Jrue Holiday
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
I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.
~ Genzebe Dibaba
Being injured has harmed me on and off the field in a lot of ways.
~ Danny Rose
And then, just when I was beginning to think I might safely pop down in that direction and gather up the dropped threads, so to speak, time, instead of working the healing wheeze, went and pulled the most awful bone and put the lid on it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
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
Mindfulness helps especially for those of us for whom every setback, hurt or dissapointment creates endless cascades of rumination
~ Daniel Goleman
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