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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?”

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Book:So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

Source: So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

“Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]”

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Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“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.”

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Book:How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.”

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Book:How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

Source: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

“Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.”

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Author:Pat Summitt

“People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.”

People Wells Suffering Teach Events Blessing Radical Disguise Trust Me Setback Blessings In Disguise Radical Change

Author:Tom Freston

“I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.”

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Author:Lee Majors

“Every event has a purpose and every setback a lesson. Failure 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 it is.”

Whole Past Purpose Growth Teacher Events Regret Lessons Essentials Embrace Rewards Host Expansion Our Past Psychics Your Past Setback Never Regret Inner Growth

Author:Robin S

“Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.”

Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success

“Every setback has a major comeback.”

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Author:Russell Wilson

“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.”

People Believe Moving Mistake Lessons Majors Making Money Making Mistakes Setback Towards Success

Author:Jerry Gillies

“Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.”

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Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill.”

Source: Runner's World Complete Book of Running: Everything You Need to Run for Weight Loss, Fitness, and Competition

“The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.”

Motivational Beautiful Strength Succeed Stronger Introducing Beautiful Things Key To Success Road To Success Setback Ladder Of Success Getting Stronger

Author:Robin Sharma

“If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true happiness and joy. Faith does not run counter to your highest ideals; on the contrary, it elevates and perfects those ideals. Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. His sovereignty is absolute. Everything that happens is uniquely ordained by God. Sovereignty is a weighty thing to ascribe to the nature and character of God. Yet if He were not sovereign, He would not be God. The Bible is clear that God is in control of everything that happens.”

Ifs Character Happens Purpose Clear Plans Absolutes Surprise Sovereign Sovereignty Setback God Is In Control Character Of God

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.”

Knows Littles Suffering Numbers Successful Pieces Harm Pie Setback Becoming Successful Downturn Success Of Others

Author:Denis Waitley

“Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks.”

Matter Right Now Endurance Setback

Author:Kip Wells

“Sometimes small setbacks are just blessings in disguise. They enhance your determination and whole-hearted dedication to achieving your goals.”

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Author:Robert Cheeke

“When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win.”

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“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.”

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Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.”

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Author:Bob Dole

“Failures and setbacks are a part of this experience, and it will remain in you as wisdom.”

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Author:Ryuho Okawa

“Every setback is a setup for a comeback!”

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Book:Daily Readings from Every Day a Friday: 90 Devotions to Be Happier 7 Days a Week

Source: Daily Readings from Every Day a Friday: 90 Devotions to Be Happier 7 Days a Week

“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.”

Thinking Important Realizing Path Journey Changed Track Destination Timing Never Change Setback Arrivals My Journey Important Life

Author:John Foley

“If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.”

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Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“No human being is immune to adversity or personal setbacks.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.”

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Author:Richard Davidson

“The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.”

Important Ability Traits Venture Entrepreneurial Setback Bounce

Author:Richard Branson

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

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not.”

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Author:Ralph Marston

“Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.”

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Author:Robert Fulghum

“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.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“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.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.”

Ifs Winning Loses Teach Victory Losing Rewards Setback

Author:Serena Williams

“Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.”

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Author:Denis Waitley

“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.”

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Author:Rick Warren

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

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Author:Joel Osteen

“The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth”

Spiritual Growth Events Periods Circumstances Intense Spiritual Growth Setback Facts Of Life

Book:How to Handle Adversity

Source: How to Handle Adversity

“Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.”

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Book:The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

“If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.”

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Author:Cedric Richmond

“To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.”

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Author:Ryan Holiday

“My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me. I have fun running all the Virgin businesses-so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.”

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Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.”

Years Sometimes Moving Objects Periods Come Up I've Learned Setback

Author:Coleman Young

“I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete.”

Thinking World Way Feels Hard Proud Picks Down And Athlete Setback Pick Yourself Up

Author:Jessica Ennis

“Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.”

Years Dream Beautiful Moving Night Faith Share Goes On Kings Opening Magnificent Drs Orchestra Setback Opening Night

Author:Adam Schiff