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• Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.

  Patrick Madrid

  Jesus, Joy, Sorrow

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• You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies - though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Children, Would Be, Upheaval

  Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2012). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.47, Image

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• Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

  Maureen Johnson

  Lying, Next, Spine

  Maureen Johnson (2014). “Scarlett Fever”, p.160, Hot Key Books

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• The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.

  Susan Faludi

  Jobs, Powerful, Opportunity

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• Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Years, China

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

  Richard Branson

  Mistake, Successful, Dna

  "'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point': As he gives £1m to UK start-ups Richard Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy". Interview with Eleanor Lawrie, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when Putin has made abusing your wife legal, and transgender bathrooms have just been disallowed in school. There are all these political setbacks. And there's no question that those setbacks are very real and need to be treated as civil-rights issues.

  Stephen Marche

  Hate, Real, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Stronger, Ever After

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• Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

  Dottie Walters

  Motivational, Perseverance, Rejection

  Dottie Walters (2002). “Speak and Grow Rich: Revised and Updated”, p.75, Penguin

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• Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Real, Self Esteem

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• Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

  Stefan Zweig

  History, Intellectual, Suffering

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• History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Records, Painful

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Gone, Cases

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Mostly, I stand in awe of the every day women I knew from childhood that I interact with on Facebook. They struggle with juggling careers and raising children, endure hardships and occasional setbacks and yet do so with humility, grace and a sense of humor. Now that is inspiring!

  Kambri Crews

  Children, Struggle, Humility

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The difference between "winners" and "losers" is not whether they face obstacles and setbacks - we all do, and it is inevitable that plans do not unfold exactly as imagined or that unexpected events surprise us or that a few mistakes happen. The real difference is that "winners" bounce back from a fumble or a loss by refusing to panic, analyzing the situation and looking for positive actions they can take to correct the problem, and then go on to resume winning.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Real, Mistake, Loss

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.

  John S. Dickerson

  Simple, Office, Violent

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again. This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason. Let go.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Letting Go, Believe, Opportunity

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• It's such a unique story. Book of Joshua in the Bible wasn't always my favorite book, by the way. Only some ago did I realize that this book covers a seven-year period in the history of ancient Israel in which they literally went undefeated.They did have one setback, but outside of that, they defeated over 30 kings. They recaptured the Promised Land. They did what their ancestors said they could not.

  Max Lucado

  Kings, Book, Unique

  Source: ww2.christianpost.com

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• I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.

  Bill Gates

  War, Epidemics, Views

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go to a school to give a speech and the sorority wanted to sign a song, they would send [a person] to my house and tell my wife that I had sex with this woman or that woman.It got to the point where my wife didn't know what to believe anymore, and the fact that I didn't have a job, I couldn't support my bills, the fact that I was getting ready to go through maybe a mental setback in terms of depression, we just had a tremendous amount of things on us.

  John Carlos

  Song, Jobs, Sex

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels that he can do nothing but move from one ghetto to another and one slum to another, the despair and the disappointment will be so great that it will be very difficult to keep the struggle disciplined and nonviolent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Disappointment, Moving, Struggle

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.

  Tiger Woods

  Lessons, Today, Tomorrow

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• In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

  Kate Adie

  War, Enemy, Kind

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• I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

  Hillary Clinton

  Ebb And Flow, Natural, Survived

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• My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old.' Keep going even if you have setbacks.

  Lesley Garrett

  Persistence, Used, Spit

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