#setback

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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.


Warren Mitchell


#be happy #begin #buy #charge #choose

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.


Robert Greene


#failures #forgetfulness #mistakes #offense #patterns

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


#enough #feeling #four #fulfilment #games

And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.


Brett Favre


#family #go #good #good family #got

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.


Jessica Ennis


#athlete #better #dealt #doing #down

All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream.


Shannon L. Alder


#dreams #inspiration #life-lessons #motivation #purpose

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.


Henry Ford


#built #character #develop #each #endure

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


#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

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


Iyad Allawi


#setbacks #struggle #succeeding #tough

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


Oscar Pistorius


#everyone #fact #happen #i #legs