Quotes About Overcoming setbacks

"It's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest."

— Binet

"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."

— Plato

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."

— Arnold Palmer

"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again."

— David Viscott

"When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens"

— and when it happens, it lasts.

"Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain and difficulty."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

"What did I (or can I) learn from that experience? How can I use it as a basis for growth?"

— Carol Dweck, 2006

"Those with the growth mind-set found setbacks motivating. They're informative. They're a wake-up call."

— Carol Dweck

"A winning effort begins with preparation."

— Joe Gibbs

"We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do, I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled."

— Lee Pearson

"Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place."

— Carol Dweck, H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues."

— Al Jarreau

"Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it."

— Joel Osteen

"If at first you don't succeed, try again."

— T. H. Palmer

"Do not let the sun set without doing something."

— Latin Proverb

"The greater the effort, the greater the glory."

— Pierre Corneille

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

— Vince Lombardi

"Rome wasn't built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour."

— John Heywood