Top 33 Setback Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Setback Quotes from famous people such as Fidel Castro, Jerry Gillies, Carmen Carrera, Jeh Johnson, Barack Obama, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
Fidel Castro
People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
Jerry Gillies
For any model in this industry, you never know if you’re going to get work. You never know if people are going to relate to you, and embrace you. And then being trans is kind of like – I hate to say it – but it’s kind of like a setback.
Carmen Carrera
Rhetoric that vilifies American Muslims is counter to our efforts. It’s a setback to our Homeland Security efforts.
Jeh Johnson
Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
Barack Obama
I don’t know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing – and it was a wonderful thing, I don’t regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.
John Kessel
Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The financial and economic crash of 2008, the worst in over 75 years, is a major geopolitical setback for the United States and Europe.
Roger Altman
Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that’s exactly what I do: I persevere.
Edge
We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer.
Marcel Dionne
Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.
Nuseir Yassin
I had a great job and I lost it, but I’m doing great now, I have a great family, my daughters all live with me. Did I have a setback? Absolutely, but I don’t look at it like a ruined my life.
Tim Donaghy
There’s never been a point when I’ve questioned myself. If I’ve ever had a setback at a club I’ve always made it my mission to show why I should be in the team instead of dwelling on it.
James Maddison
Throughout your career, whether you’re getting into the sport or have been it in for a number of years like me, there will always be obstacles. The important thing is how you deal with those obstacles and come back from any disappointment or setback, no matter how big or small.
Kyle Busch
As a single mom, I want to say that having a child does not have to be a setback. You can still reach your dreams and teach your kids to reach for their dreams.
Denise Bidot
Everyone’s had a setback, but it’s how you move forward and what you do with your future, that’s what matters.
Christina Anstead
In Kaifi’s poetry and in his work as a social activist, every setback only strengthened his resolve to fight back with renewed vigor and strength.
Shabana Azmi
If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you’re not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.
Tim Tebow
Striving for success is healthy – but believing you need to succeed the first time around may backfire. Mentally strong people believe failure is part of the process toward a long journey to success. By viewing failure as a temporary setback, they’re able to bounce back and move forward with ease.
Amy Morin
CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.
Alan Stern
I’m open to all kind of scripts. As long as there’s enough scope to perform, I’d take up the offer. In fact, before Yuvan and ‘TT’ happened, I got an opportunity to work with a top actor-director combination. But my height proved to be a setback.
Rakul Preet Singh
My birth at the end of July 1967 makes me a child of the naksa, or setback, as the Arab defeat during the June 1967 war with Israel is euphemistically known in Arabic.
Mona Eltahawy
If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me – any setback, like losing a family member – everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn’t included I was numb. I’d been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.
Michael Owen
To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.
Mr. T
If you have a setback, and you’re not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
Sam Donaldson
Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.
Joel Osteen
A successful entrepreneur can’t be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.
John Roos
When there’s a setback, someone with a fixed mindset will start thinking, ‘Maybe I don’t have what it takes?’ They may get defensive and give up. A hallmark of a successful person is that they persist in the face of obstacle, and often, these obstacles are blessings in disguise.
Carol S. Dweck
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
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Les Brown
The idea that my mother would go around swearing after a personal setback is ridiculous.
Carol Thatcher
Where you have a little setback or you are out of the t

Where you have a little setback or you are out of the team you’re considered a different player but you know you will come out of the other side of it.
Gary Cahill
Once I failed in cricket, I joined a law course, but when it also did not work out, it was another setback. When you get back-to-back failures, you automatically start to work harder in life.
Aparshakti Khurana