How We Respond Quotes

#1. We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.

Vince Poscente

#2. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Those stories helped me realize that, although tragedy and loss are regrettably commonplace, we aren't measured by what happens to us but rather by how we respond to it.

Steve Pemberton

#4. I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

Nick Vujicic

#5. How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

Seth Godin

#6. Life isn't about what happens to us; life is about how we respond to what happens to us.

Rodney Burton

#7. The state of ill health is a moment to
moment happening. Healing is moment
to moment balance, bringing awareness
to our thoughts, feelings and emotions and
how we respond.

Vasant Lad

#8. How we respond to something is just as important - if not more important - than our initial reaction.

Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#9. But in life people come and go. We don't always have control over it. But we can control how we respond. We can keep going, keep living the best we can. We can love the people we have instead of shutting them out. We can do our best to get to know them in the time we have.

Suzanne LaFleur

#10. One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

David A. Bednar

#11. Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.

David Wilkerson

#12. While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#13. Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

Dan Miller

#14. The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

Wesley J. Smith

#15. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless - it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another. Consistency is not required, but engagement with the problem is.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

Eknath Easwaran

#17. How we respond to tragedy is the hallmark of character. Suffering a great loss places us at a spiritual milepost. The wind of our souls can either sour and wither or rejoice and thrive.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

Arianna Huffington

#19. It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives.

Debbie Ford

#20. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.

Lance Henriksen

#21. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them

Epictetus

#22. All are born with the Light of Christ, a guiding influence which permits each person to recognize right from wrong. What we do with that light and how we respond to those promptings to live righteously is part of the test of mortality.

Boyd K. Packer

#23. The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.

Thomas Crum

#24. How We Respond to Our Mistakes Has a Profound Effect on the People in Our Lives

Holly Elissa Bruno

#25. We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

Viktor E. Frankl

#26. We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.

Mark Nepo

#27. It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.

Wayde Goodall

#28. We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

Bill Clinton

#29. I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

Lance Henriksen

#30. We don't know anything. But we can choose how we respond to whatever comes our way. We have a choice always. Remember that!

Matthew Quick

#31. How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act.

Rob Bell

#32. A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

Bruce Lipton

#33. Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.

Philip Yancey

#34. It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#35. Life happens to all of us. It's not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us that really decides if we're going to be victims or if we're going to get and have everything we've ever dreamed of.

Eric Thomas

#36. There's no right or wrong way to hurt. Everybody does it their own way. It's how we respond to pain that tells the kind of person we are.

Bethany Crandell

#37. Much of the time, we cannot control what happens to us. But we can always control how we respond to what happens to us. If we cannot choose to be lucky, to be talented, to be loved, we can choose to be grateful, to be content with who we are and what we have, and to act accordingly.

Harold S. Kushner

#38. If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

Barack Obama

#39. When we try to form a new habit, we set an expectation for ourselves. Therefore, it's crucial to understand how we respond to expectations.

Gretchen Rubin

#40. What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.

Philip Yancey

#41. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#42. Sometimes we can't help the way we feel, but we can mostly choose how we respond to it.

Richard Brancatisano

#43. Bad things happen to everyone. No one by their behavior can store up any immunity from disaster or tragedy. All any of us can control is how we respond when tough times come. This does not diminish God or his sovereignty in my mind.

Janice Cantore

#44. Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions

Dalai Lama

#45. We will all have to answer to God in due time. However, I don't believe God is more concerned about what others do to us; rather, how we respond to them.

Joan Ambu

#46. how we respond to opportunities and how the outcomes pan out determine whether we are lucky or not.

Ashwin Sanghi

#47. The highest of all human abilities is the ability each one of us has to choose how we respond to the environment we find ourselves within.

Robin S. Sharma

#48. Suffering is inevitable, they said, but how we respond to that suffering is our choice. Not even oppression or occupation can take away this freedom to choose our response. Right

Dalai Lama XIV

#49. The picture that we have of ourselves - our self-concept - will always determine how we respond to life.

Myles Munroe

#50. How we respond to grief can shape our present

K.C. Rhoads

#51. What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.

Stephen A. Diamond

#52. It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.

Gerald L. Sittser

#53. Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

Linda Dillow

#54. Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again.

J.W. Lord

#55. What makes most of us who we are most of all is...how we respond to what happens to us.

Joshua Prager

#56. The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

DeVon Franklin

#57. The journey is about growing and evolving and forever striving to become a better person. Bad things happen to us all; it is how we respond to those unfortunate events that defines the quality of our life and the lives of those around us.

Khloe Kardashian

#58. The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

John Guare

#59. How we respond to moments of interruption determine who we become and how we spend our lives. But you can never fully live in your calling without going through struggle, fear, and failure. Our decisions in those moments determine the legacy we will live.

Chris Marlow

#60. Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature, and the world that we encounter reveals the spectator and not life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#61. Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

#62. None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#63. We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

Woody Harrelson

#64. I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

John Burns

#65. The measure of our success will not be determined by how we act during the great times in our life but rather by how we think and respond to the challenges of our most difficult moments.

Jon Gordon

#66. We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended.

Moffat Machingura

#67. RAISE How can we raise the number of opportunities that come our way? RECOGNIZE How can we recognize these opportunities better? RESPOND How can we better respond to the recognized opportunities?

Ashwin Sanghi

#68. As French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted sixty years ago, as soon as we imagine we're being watched, we start to notice how we're behaving, and we begin to imagine how other people might respond if they were watching.

Adam Alter

#69. Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer
a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.

Bill Ayers

#70. We all know that life has ups and downs; you've experienced both. And though you can't always control what happens outside you, you can choose how you will respond. You can treat life as a dance rather than a wrestling match. You can become an active participant rather than a victim of circumstance.

Dan Millman

#71. The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.

Kim Hunter

#72. Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

Russell Howard

#73. How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than we would like to believe. We may be adults, chronologically and physically, but too often the youngest parts of our personality are invisibly, yet actively, living our lives.

Charlette Mikulka

#74. A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that.

Kate Griffin

#75. We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Philip Yancey

#76. This is the way we're taught early in our lives about how to interpret pain. When we experience pain, the way the people around us respond to it then teaches us to respond in a similar way.

John C. Parkin

#77. For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.

Lynsey Addario

#78. We do not have control over what happens to us in life, but we do have control over how we chose to respond.

Bryant McGill

#79. Offensive Takeaway Point: We should look for a way to stop responding to initiatives of the adversary and start behaving in such a way that they have to figure out how to respond to us. Take the initiative.

Douglas Wilson

#80. Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.

Noah Levine

#81. I love how you feel in my arms, how you respond to my touch and how your face takes on an expression of pure rapture when we make love. When we're apart I ache to be with you. There is no doubt in my mind that what I feel for you is the truest, deepest form of love possible.

Wendy S. Marcus

#82. Our pets will never be with us for long enough, at least physically, but when they have been blessed with opportunity and been able to live a full life, how can we respond with anything less than pride and celebration?

Nick Trout

#83. I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself.

Virginia Satir

#84. When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

Victoria Osteen

#85. Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

Tony Dungy

#86. The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

Barack Obama

#87. Working is prayer for the likes of us," his master often said. "It's the way we commune with God."
"Then how does He respond to us?" Jahan had once asked, way back when he was younger.
"By giving us more work, of course.

Elif Shafak

#88. We are very much at the mercy of circumstance, but it is how you choose to respond to circumstance that determines the quality of your life.

Chris Matakas

#89. How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.

Michael Ondaatje

#90. The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face.

Nick Bostrom

#91. We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities.

Paul Cellucci

#92. There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Leo Buscaglia

#93. Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our personality, and our personality scripts how successfully we interact with other people and respond to a changing environment.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#94. We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

Gary Zukav

#95. 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

#96. The facts themselves do not compel belief. God will not force us to trust Him. God gives us the ability to respond and graciously allows us to choose how we will use the freedom that He gave us.

Holly Ordway

#97. We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.

Catherine Ponder

#98. We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.

Randy Pausch

#99. God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Peter Kreeft

#100. Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

Cate Blanchett