Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.
Setbacks are just learning experiences.
Setbacks help you to concentrate.
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.
I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.
Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.
I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault.
When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!
A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.
I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from.
Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.
Setbacks in life are opportunities to perform at a new level.
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.
You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks
My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old. ' Keep going even if you have setbacks.
I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people said I wasn't good, nobody said, 'Come here, baby, we're going to make you a star. ' Early on, when I'd say, 'Can I do some anchoring?' people would look at me like I was crazy.
These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.
I don't like to lose-at anything. . . Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.