90 Powerful Comeback Quotes to Overcome Any Setback

The world can feel like it has been turned upside down when life hits you hard. Everyone’s life is full of setbacks. Great comeback stories are respected by all.

Most people give up hope in such circumstances and opt for the simple route. You can feel as though you are at your wits’ end or that you are unable to change your situation.

90 Best Comeback Quotes

Remember that you can make a comeback if it describes you since it isn’t over until it’s over. They cease contemplating doing what they have always wanted to. They experience exhaustion during failures, both physically and mentally. This is the period when you need the fortitude, strength, and perseverance to recover and move on with your life.

Here are some most powerful and motivating comeback quotes to give you strength in your difficult time.

20 Quotes about Comebacks

1. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King

2. “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” – Marv Levy.

3. “Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first steps to succeeding.” – Jim Valvano

4. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

5. “I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

6. “Don’t say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!” — Aretha Franklin

7. “I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.” – J. Cole

8. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up.” – Michael Jordan

9. “I’ve always felt like the underdog, and I’m comfortable with that label.” – Pink

10. “There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.” – Anne Lamott

11. “The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.” – Kobe Bryant

12. “To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren’t what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.” – Marilyn Manson

13. “There’s nothing as exciting as a comeback – seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.” – Rachel Griffiths

14. “Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.” – Doug Williams

15. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.” – Vince Lombardi

16. “During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.” – Mickey Mantle

17. “I was the undersized underdog who people never gave a chance to. From that, the motivation to prove people wrong just grew and grew.” – Baker Mayfield.

18. “Of course I talk like an idiot. How else could you understand me?”

19. “There’s no need to repeat yourself. I ignored you just fine the first time.”

20. “To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street

20 Quotes about Coming Back

21. “A great champion deals with setbacks with a comeback.” – Donna de Varona

22. “You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.” – Joel Osteen

23. “Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.” – Steve Harvey

24. “Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.” – Aaron Ben-Ze’ev

25. “A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes.” – Anderson Silva

26. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt

27. “A setback only paves the way for a comeback.” – Evander Holyfield

28. “Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.” – Cat Cora

29. “It’s not too late for a new beginning.” – Eleanor Brown

30. “Books can teach you many nice comebacks.” – Tamuna Tsertsvadze

31. “When you’re crying, your tears may be watering the seeds of your come-back.” – Steve Maraboli

32. “Kindness is the key that opens the door of favor and beautiful surprises.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

33. “When you hit hard tough stuff, do you feel flattened because of it or rebound in a new direction to keep living, loving, moving, and growing?” – Susan C. Young

34. “It’s just one miss, but you’re gonna have a whole lotta make in this life, ’cause you’re just that good, and it’s okay to be down and upset as long as you’re not down and out.” – Kwame Alexander

35. “I’m coming back and I’m coming back swinging!”― Benjamin Ford Crouch

36. “My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at the top level again.” – Thomas Muster

37. “I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.” – Paula Abdul

38. “Failure is a part of the process. You just learn to pick yourself back up.” ― Michelle Obama

39. “A comeback is a setback that did its homework, learned the lesson, and then moved forward.” – Eleanor Brown

40. “The truth is, you don’t learn much from winning but losing can make you a lot stronger.”― Drew Brees

15 Coming back Quotes

41. “That’s the greatest comeback since Lazarus.” – Sid Waddell

42. “Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that’ll be me.” – Steven Adler

43. “You only think of the best comeback when you leave.” – Jimmy Fallon

44. “To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.” – Mr. T

45. “I’m always making a comeback, but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.” – Billie Holiday

46. “Turn every setback into a comeback” – Kobe Bryant

47. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”– Nelson Mandela

48. “I’m a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do.” – Sean Young

49. “Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.” – Greg Lake

50. “I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.” – Tom Landry

51. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” – Naoki Higashida

52. “I am facing a challenge, I am not facing defeat. Remember this.” – Nikki Rowe

53. “I don’t know if God is a sports fan or not, but I do know this: He loves a good comeback.” – Lane Kiffin

54. “No matter how hard it is or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.” – Les Brown

55. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pele

15 Comeback Quotes

56. “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” – Marilyn Monroe

57. “Success is sweet, especially when your enemies think nothing good can come out of your life again.” – Bamigboye Olurotimi

58. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

59. “Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand.” – Germany Kent

60. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

61. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce those counts.” – Zig Ziglar

62. “Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.” – Robert Kiyosaki

63. “You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” – Maxwell Maltz

64. “But ultimately what matters most is resilience–the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.” – Arianna Huffington

65. “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going.” – Roy T. Bennett

66. “Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?”― Drew Brees

67. “I just showed the world tonight, everyone suffering from mental health. You can come back, it can be done.” – Tyson Fury

68. “The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” — Paulo Coelho

69. “A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.” — Steve Guttenberg

70. “Success is about handling the setbacks, problems, and mess, over and over.” ― Sharon Pearson

20 More Quotes about Comebacks

71. “The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.” – Ernie Banks

72. “You can never have a comeback if you don’t retire.” — Chael Sonnen

73. “Any good comeback needs some true believers.” – John Boehner

74. “By making a comeback, I’m changing the attitude of people toward me. If I’d known that people would react so enthusiastically, I’d have done it years ago.” — Mark Spitz

75. “America loves a good comeback story!” — Laura van den Berg

76. “I’d agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.”

77. “Insecure people don’t stage comebacks, since they don’t leave the scene.” — Atif Aslam

78. “When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.” – Terry Bradshaw

79. “Whenever I take a break for a couple of years, people use the term ‘comeback.’” — Pranitha Subhash

80. “I’ve found puddles deeper than you.”

81. “I would love to make a comeback, but I don’t know if people would want to see me.” — Karan Kapoor

82. “Oh you’re talking to me, I thought you only talked behind my back.”

83. “You’re about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.”

84. “It’s hilarious watching you try to fit your entire vocabulary into one sentence.”

85. “Comeback is a good word, man.” — Mickey Rourke

86. “The village called. They’d like their idiot back.”

87. “It’s a shame you can’t Photoshop your personality.”

88. “I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.” – Pam Grier

89. “My name must taste good because it’s always in your mouth.”

90. “You can cry again or You can try again. The choice is yours.” ― Soham Mondal

Takeaway from these Coming back Quotes

Your setbacks provide you the chance to endure and stage an inspiring comeback, no matter where you are. We hope you received the tremendous encouragement you were looking for to help you go through. You are now ready to create your own memorable comeback.

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