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Quotes About Setback

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.
~ Mamie McCullough
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
Success has made failures of many men.
~ Cindy Adams
Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It looks like a setback, but really it's a setup to move you into your destiny.
~ Joel Osteen
You may not understand it now, it may not make sense yet, but one day, you'll see it was a necessary step to reach your destiny. It looked like a setback, but really, it was a setup.
~ Joel Osteen
In the Bible when Paul told Timothy, "Stir up the gift. Fan the flame" (2 Timothy 1:6 (NIV), he was saying, "Timothy, life is flying by. Get busy pursuing your destiny." Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.
~ Joel Osteen
This is what faith is all about. You got to believe it before you see it. God's favor is surrounding you like a shield. Every setback is a setup for a comeback. Every bad break, every disappointment, and every person who does you wrong is part of the plan to get you to where you're supposed to be.
~ Joel Osteen
You may be in the middle of a setback, in the middle of a silent season, in the middle of mourning, that is not the end. God has a flourishing finish for you. He hasn't brought you this far to leave you. Your greatest victories are not behind you; they're in front of you.
~ Joel Osteen
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
~ Anonymous
When things are as bad as they can be, fate finds a way to deliver another blow.
~ Anthony Everitt
Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people were doing well, and then they went right down, and they made a comeback. It's not that they went anywhere. It's that their fortunes went way down, and then they came back.
~ John Ralston Saul
A loss is always frustrating.
~ Benson Henderson
Losing isn't very fun.
~ Joe Burrow
That was the story of college: one obsession after another; an advance followed by a retreat; a breakthrough dissolving into a setback. It was a reprise of the years preceding it and an omen of the years to come.It It could be broken down into the forces and schemes that propelled me
~ Frank Bruni
You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.
~ Lindsey Vonn
The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.
~ Abby Wambach
Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.
~ Roderick L. Evans
That seems horribly unfair, and it was. But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
AMISSION  (AMI'SSION)   n.s.[amissio, Lat.]Loss.
~ Samuel Johnson
Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head...
~ Sara Gruen
he lost his weapon as well as his confidence as he fell.
~ Eji Yoshikawa