Quotes about Setbacks
In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.
— John Piper
O, the lessons here for us! Name your discouraging setback—personal, political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, cultural, global. Dare any Christian say that God is not in this for the good of his people and the glory of his name? Not if our God is the God of Ezra! Do you think these setbacks are not without some great purpose of righteousness bigger and more stunning than any of us can imagine?
— John Piper
the story of Ruth . . .was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.
— John Piper
When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
— Mark Twain
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
— Steve Jobs
In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.
— John Piper
From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.
— Niki Lauda
When you understand that God has divine detours, that He uses the wrongs—things we don't understand, delays, setbacks—to move us into our destiny, then you won't fight it; you'll flow with it.
— Joel Osteen
If you're going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you're going to have big challenges.
— Joel Osteen
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
— Madeleine L'Engle
anyone in recovery will tell you, setbacks are part of the process in long-term change. Rather than beat myself up, I simply asked God and my friends to help me get back on track.
— Rick Warren
Napoleon Hill had a beautiful spin on the moments when things don't work out the way you planned and unexpected hardship falls on you. Instead of coming from a negative place and looking at those moments as a "failure," he called them "temporary defeats.
— Kevin Hart