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Quotes About Setback

Stoic test strategy: when faced with a setback, we should treat it as a test of our resilience and resourcefulness, devised and administered, as I have said, by imaginary Stoic gods.
~ William B. Irvine
Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.
~ Roderick L. Evans
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
~ George Michael
The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.
~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan
If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.
~ Tony Robbins
The only real test of character comes with the passing of the years and watching them perform - particularly when they are going through a bad spell or recovering from a setback. The ultimate judge of performance is Father Time.
~ Alex Ferguson
These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.
~ Kim Clijsters
I remember being 32 years old and feeling great, better than ever physically. Then at 33, I tore my shoulder and was out for eight months, and it was like I fell off a cliff. I was never the same.
~ Forrest Griffin
To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.
~ Mr. T
Three steps forward, two steps back.
~ Richard Rohr
Failure has gone to his head.
~ Wilson Mizner
Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.
~ David Niven
One day they won. The next day they lost.
~ David Peace
You often take two steps backward to take one step forward.
~ Dean Lorey
You often take two steps backwards to take one step forward.
~ Dean Lorey
Emotions can lead you to culmination of success sometimes it leads you to nadir of failure
~ Myra Yadav
El éxito lleva en su interior la semilla del fracaso, y viceversa.
~ Javier Moro
Death. Fire. Snow. Failure.
~ Deborah Blake
Disease and distress need to be healed. Yet over a lifetime, the key to well-being is a person's coping skills. With poor coping skills, you become prey to every accident, setback, or disaster. with strong coping skills, you become resilient in the face of misfortune, and resilience has been shown repeatedly to be present in people who survive to great old age with a sense of fulfillment.
~ Deepak Chopra
However, when there is a major setback, the counterattack collapses. When this happens, they often fall apart and become very depressed.
~ Jeffrey E. Young
It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's it. That's pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand.
~ Michael Vick
I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered. That was my first heartbreak. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.
~ Michelle Wolf
There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.
~ Hugo Lloris
It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.
~ Beth Brooke