Setbacks Quotes

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

Setbacks allow us to take a step back and look at the view from a whole.

Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights while stranded in the forest, how would you ever know to walk in that direction? Sometimes, your vision can't be put into action, until you gather the learning experiences, along your journey first.

Don't be sidetracked by one setback along a path of gifts and blessings

I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.

Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility

Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.

Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success.

Each year the winning team of the Super Bowl loses some ground (yardage) throughout the game. Yet they always keep their minds fixed on the goal, push through the opposition, and, as a result, advance to victory in the end.

Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.

A child thinks and acts like a child. But when you are grown, you act and think like an adult. Too many people are still childish and immature and fail to realize it's a setback in their lives.

Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires questing. Questing provides the meaning that we seek, a purpose to justify the inevitable struggle to live knowing the absurdity that we must die.

Laughter not only provides a cushion to our emotional hurts but also helps us in dealing with the jolts of life effectively.

The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.

What breaks you down is not the amount of pressure you feel at one time, but it’s the way you perceive and handle it.

Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying

A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!

You cannot withstand continual setbacks unless you've seen a worthwhile vision...

On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere.

A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.

Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life. Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come. What matters is how you tackle them, work your way around or find your way through them.

You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those rocks.

When setbacks arise - and they will from time to time - regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.

All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream.

Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives.

Do not fear the conflict, and do not flee from it; where there is no struggle, there is no Virtue.

And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. -Bishop Milton Wright to Orville Wright, 20 Sept. 1908

If you've seen a clear & worthy vision, you get up every morning to pursue your vision even if you were knocked down the previous day...

Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life.

Put in the time, learn something new, challenge your perception and know that a setback is an opportunity in hindsight

When things don't always go our way, we have two choices in dealing with the situations. We can focus on the fact that things didn't go how we had hoped they would and let life pass us by, or two, we can make the best out of the situation and know that these are only temporary setbacks and find the lessons that are to be learned

When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.

Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!

When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be ... I am thankful for ashes.

I’ve learned to turn life’s setbacks into opportunities for creation.