How We React Quotes

#1. Take responsibility for our lives and recognize that we choose how we react to situations and that we can choose to be free if we so wish.

Tom Hodgkinson

#2. The course of our lives is determined by how we react
what we decide and what we do
at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

Daisaku Ikeda

#3. Love is how we behave with these emotions and how we react with our experience.

Coco Nicole Estef

#4. The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

Gregg Popovich

#5. We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

Charles R. Swindoll

#6. We are so identified with who we think we are that it limits how we can be, determines how we live, and conditions how we react. As Mark Twain said, It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, but what we are sure we know.

Lama Surya Das

#7. Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

Billy Graham

#8. Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

Wade Boggs

#9. Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine.

Michael Moss

#10. Life just happens, Alice. What makes us special is how we react to it.

Robert McKay

#11. How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much.

Anna Politkovskaya

#12. The root of suffering doesn't come from what we experience, but rather from how we react to our experiences.

Tom Miles

#13. We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

Nick Clooney

#14. What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.

S. Kelley Harrell

#15. Anna used to say that the Buddhists meditate about reactions. That we cannot control WHAT happens to us, only how we react to it.

Suzanne Hayes

#16. Everything in this world is based on interpretation, how we as people interpret the people and events and feelings around us. Then our interpretation defines us. Who we are is usually based on how we react to circumstances.

Jessiqua Wittman

#17. We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

Seth Adam Smith

#18. The most important thing is how we react at the time of trials

Sunday Adelaja

#19. We will ultimately be judged by how we react in times of trouble and how we care for the least among us.

Howard Dean

#20. No one walks through life unscathed, and it's how we react to being tested that becomes our legacy.

Emigh Cannaday

#21. The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

Donna Farhi

#22. Still, we always have some level of choice, even if it only how we react and make use of what life brings us.

Shepherd Hoodwin

#23. Emotional pain is sometimes what we make of it. We can always choose how we react. No matter what the pain, breathing always centers me.

Aleks Paunovic

#24. I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

Paolo Bacigalupi

#25. Tragedy, loss, and hurt often arrive unanticipated. How we react when we are surprised will tell our families whether what we have taught and testified lies deep in our hearts.

Henry B. Eyring

#26. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. We don't choose the experience but we do choose how we react to the experience we have. Choose to be positive, choose to be helpful, choose to be happy.

Paula Coffer

#27. Ours may be the heritage of the withheld promises. We have been blessed through the endurance and faithfulness of those who have suffered in the past; the people around us, or those who will succeed us, may be blessed through our trials and suffering and how we react to them.

Billy Graham

#28. The Moon rules our emotional nature, how we react in situations, and what is needed in our lives to make us feel emotionally safe and secure.

Rosemary Breen

#29. I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

John Perkins

#30. Transformation brings with it the recognition that the meaning we assign to events in the world determines how we react in relation to them.

Teresa DeCicco

#31. No matter how dark life can be, it's how we react to it that matters. Love & forgiveness instead of hate and fear, create in us a garden of healing.

Kathy Goodhew

#32. We have the free will to choose how we react to those stimuli every moment of our life and what we choose creates our destiny.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#33. Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

John C. Maxwell

#34. Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

Robert Urich

#35. We all hit moments when we feel helpless. The test is how we react to that feeling. We can either learn from it and move forward or let it drag us down.

Travis Bradberry

#36. Our thinking controls how we react towards our circumstances,therefore, never allow antecedent causes to necessitate your actions...

Christopher Ty

#37. You see, events occur throughout our lives that forever alter us, and it is how we react to those circumstances that define who we are.

Day Parker

#38. We are not defined by our mistakes, but how we react to them and the life journey we create despite of them.

Jacquitta A. McManus

#39. When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'

Noam Chomsky

#40. That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.

Miguel Ruiz

#41. We can't give up on people anymore. Even if most react like you say, some won't. So we start with the hearts we can change. That's how we make a difference--we begin with a ripple to end with a wave.

Romina Russell

#42. I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea at all. "The slight trip syndrome," we call it. With tragedy one can get away with things a bit more because audiences don't always know how to react.

Peter Bowles

#43. Everyone's had shit in their lives. Some people have it worse than others. But no one can turn you into a bad person, just like no one can turn you into a good one. We're all dealt our hands in life, and how we choose to react is entirely up to us. That's free will.

Kelley York

#44. We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#45. We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.

Sarah Winter

#46. I've learned that life isn't about the end, but about the chapters in between. The filling in that we do to get our stories told and how people react to it is what keeps us going.

Claire Contreras

#47. We cannot control how others feel and react. Even though we should understand feelings, there are some things that are out of our control, and some decisions we can only make for ourselves.

Jack Canfield

#48. Misunderstandings are a normal part of life, and the outcomes of these depend upon how we choose to react to them.

C. JoyBell C.

#49. I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

Philip Kerr

#50. Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

Vidal Sassoon

#51. Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.

Bernard Baruch

#52. People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Nelson Mandela

#53. With the level of uncertainty we see today, more people are asking, how can you develop a strategy in a world that keeps changing so fast? They are afraid that a set of rigid principles will hinder their ability to react quickly. I argue that it is precisely at such times that you need a strategy.

Orit Gadiesh

#54. We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

Elizabeth George

#55. As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?

Jeff Deck

#56. A business strategy roadmap is also composed of three elements: insights on technological possibilities, customer needs, and competitive intent. In other words, what could we build, how would people react to it, and does it give us an edge over the competition?

Michael Mace

#57. Too often we worry about how the others react-but it's YOUR reaction that they monitor.

Sam Cawthorn

#58. If truly tested, how would we react?

Andrea Levy

#59. Guilt is useless. The world torments us, and we react by tormenting ourselves. I wonder how we can ever have such a low opinion of ourselves that we join in.

Philip K. Dick

#60. Like I said, they wanted to test us, see how we'd react to what they call the Variables, and to a problem that has no solution.

James Dashner

#61. How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?

Kyo Maclear

#62. I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can't understand, so your brain has to adapt. We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it's how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.

Larry Fessenden

#63. Our health - and indeed our entire lives - can be seen as the sum of all our moment-to-moment decisions. This includes how we choose to eat and drink, think and feel, act and react, and move and rest on any given day.

Kelly A. Turner

#64. Amelia was sitting on the pavement in her lawn chair, a glass of wine in her hand.
When we emerged, she set the glass down very carefully on the ground and then looked us over from head to toe.
'Okay, don't know how to react,' she said, finally.

Charlaine Harris

#65. I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

Charles B. Rangel

#66. The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#67. A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.

Jonathan Maberry

#68. I'm always worried about how fans of the books will react, but we have kept true to a lot of the books. Obviously there are changes, but with the books as a basis, hopefully the fans will like what we have done.

Dominic Sherwood

#69. The readiness to react with fear, for instance, depends on how much fear is already present within to be triggered by a stimulus. The more fear we have on the inside, the more our perception of the world is changed to a fearful, guarded expectancy.

David R. Hawkins

#70. We can, however, assess regularities by running precise and thorough experiments on how people react under certain conditions, and keep a tally of what we see.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#71. If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.

Federica Montseny

#72. Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

Elizabeth Smart

#73. Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

Landon Donovan

#74. When you find the right person, yeah - this is what it feels like." He takes a deep breath, trying to steady himself before taking my hand and placing it over his heart. It's beating fast and hard. "Do you feel that? We haven't done anything yet and that's how I react to you.

H.M. Ward

#75. There are things we can control and the things we can't control. I can't control how people react to the work I do.

Noah Hawley

#76. Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#77. Instead of testing a new idea or tool, "paralysis by analysis" takes hold. We overanalyze new options, mull over all of the things we don't know, think about how students will react, and then we don't act!

Matt Miller

#78. In our day-to-day actions, it is often the small and simple things that will have a long-lasting impact (Alma 37:6-7). What we say, how we act, and how we choose to react will influence not only ourselves but also those around us. We can build up, or we can tear down.

Per G. Malm

#79. People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

Kate Zambreno

#80. How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance.

Robert Gottlieb