Coping with Setbacks Quotes

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

You know you are going to go through your ups and downs in this game.

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.

A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.

I ain't scared of the fall / I've felt the ground before.

As a player and a coach, I've had plenty of great moments, but I've also experienced disappointments. The disappointments are not about self-doubt, but rather about change. I've always seen failures as a personal challenge. I say to myself: Now I have to find out if I have the right stuff.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

Little losses amaze, great tame.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

You have to take the hits as they come and you have to take the opportunities.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.