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• New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all plain sailing and easy success, without difficulties and setbacks or the exertion of tremendous efforts.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Effort, Sailing

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• Happiness isn't about what happens to us - it's about how we perceive what happens to us. It's the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. If we can just stop wishing for what we don't have, and start enjoying what we do have, our lives can be richer; more fulfilled - and happier. The time to be happy is now.

  Lyn Peters

  Happy, Challenges, Wish

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• I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people said I wasn't good, nobody said, 'Come here, baby, we're going to make you a star.' Early on, when I'd say, 'Can I do some anchoring?' people would look at me like I was crazy.

  Katie Couric

  Baby, Stars, Crazy

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• Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Honesty, Yoga, Book

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.16, Rodale

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• When I think of all the things that tossed my journey off its track, I realize something incredibly important: Life's setbacks only changed my path and the timing of my arrival. They never changed my destination.

  John Foley

  Journey, Thinking, Track

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• God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Crazy, Mistake

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.101, Penguin

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• If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.

  Tim Tebow

  Self Worth, Winning, Championship

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• Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.

  Philip Green

  Self Esteem, Down And

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• You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.

  Sivananda

  Wisdom, Hope, Integrity

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• Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

  Robin Sharma

  Spiritual, Teacher, Regret

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.21, Jaico Publishing House

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• To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Games, Two, Numbers

  "Rugby legend Wilkinson quits England", www.cnn.com. December 12, 2011.

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• The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

  Bruce Feiler

  Successful, Embrace, Family History

  "How Easter and Passover Can Make Your Family Happier" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

  Ayad Allawi

  Struggle, Iraq, Succeed

  Ayad Allawi's Speech to U.S. Congress, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2004.

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• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Writing, College

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.

  Richard Branson

  Lessons, Bad Experiences

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• No matter what you've gone through in the past, no matter how many setbacks you've suffered or who or what has tried to thwart your progress, today is a new day, and God wants to do a new thing in your life.

  Joel Osteen

  Past, New Day, Progress

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• Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.

  Stacy Allison

  Life, Creativity, Foundation

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• Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Profound, World, Way

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• If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Confidence, Adversity, Faces

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

  Heidi Klum

  Survivor, Littles, Little Things

  "Heidi Klum: A Supermodel's Secrets to a Sizzling Marriage". Interview with Holly Hays, www.sfgate.com. August 06, 2010.

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• I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback of freedom.

  Murray Bookchin

  Technological Development, Enormous, Capitalism

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• The desire of Lain Americans to live in just and egalitarian societies is too strong; it cannot be destroyed overnight. There were some serious setbacks - in Argentina and Brazil. And Venezuela is suffering immensely, battered by its own shameless elites sponsored from abroad. But the country is still standing.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, Strong, Suffering

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.

  Dalai Lama

  Unions, Middle East, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've always had a tremendously optimistic attitude about life, and the setbacks are never really setbacks for me, because I see it as a part of the adventure. And if you don't hold onto your dreams, you're a very foolish fellow, because dreams are what life is about.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Attitude, Adventure

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.latimes.com. July 31, 1994.

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