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• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Success, Peace, Freedom

  United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4, February 15, 1954.

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• Tonight is not a setback. It's just a learning experience.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Nfl, Tonight, Learning Experience

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• Setbacks motivate me.

  Lindsey Vonn

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• Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less resilient.

  James O'Toole

  Leadership, Discouraged, Resilient

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• Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path.

  Larry Crabb

  Adventure, Frustration, Following Christ

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• Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.

  Steve Jobs

  Dream, Opportunity, Pursue

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• People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

  Jerry Gillies

  Mistake, Believe, Moving

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• Be grateful for your challenges, setbacks, adversity and disappointments. Be grateful for your opportunity to overcome every single one, because doing so contributes to your growth & your ability to help others overcome theirs.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Grateful

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• You discover the goal of existence by living it. The present is the only time when you can evolve, experience the divine, expand your awareness, or reach enlightenment. But this cannot be a haphazard journey that falters and wanders off the path. It's easy for that to happen when a crisis develops. Sudden losses and setbacks shake everyone up; those who keep moving forward are buoyed by knowing that their path cannot be destroyed, only interrupted.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Loss, Journey

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.195, Harmony

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• You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Deals, Persons

  Sarah Mlynowski (2011). “Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.

  Rick Warren

  Attitude, People, Hopeful

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• I like the saying the every setback is a setup for a comeback. Also, "Todos los tigres son iguales" which means all tigers are the same. A fellow reporter once told me that when I was on assignment in Haiti working around the clock.

  Tom Llamas

  Mean, Son, Comeback

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Loyalty, Disappointment, Betrayal

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• Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sports, Running, Mistake

  "Ego and Mouth". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 2, 2008.

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• If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

  Ralph Marston

  Unexpected, Possibility, Fulfillment

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• Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Different, Legs, Facts

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• It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of China. But Taiwan is also a regional issue for three reasons. First, the overthrow or even the neutering of democracy in Taiwan, which is what Beijing effectively demands, would be a major setback for democracy in the region as a whole. Second, if the Chinese were able to get their way by force in Taiwan, they would undoubtedly be tempted to do the same in other disputes. And third, there is no lack of such disputes to provoke a quarrel.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Issues, Chinese, Democracy

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• My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Mother, Purpose

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.

  Clive Woodward

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Lasts, Belief

  "The Third Reich: A New History". Book by Michael Burleigh, p. 1884, 2000.

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• The possibilities are endless, so never be discouraged by a setback, no matter how big.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Matter, Discouraged, Possibility

  "Hilfiger vs Nadal". VANITY FAIR Interview, www.vanityfair.com. September 22, 2016.

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• Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Loss, Keys

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?

  Beth Moore

  Stupid, Long Ago, Hands

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Acceptance, Challenges, Inferiority

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• If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Failure, Eye

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