How You Choose To Respond Quotes

#1. How you choose to respond to each moment of the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

Sherrie Eldridge

#2. 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

#3. You can't control what happens, but you can control how you choose to respond. You can do everything right and still fail! - Ken Ravizza

Chris Riddoch

#4. Happiness is not about what happens to you, but how you choose to respond to what happens.

Karen Salmansohn

#5. Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

Dalai Lama XIV

#6. Your happiness - and your healing - are a function of how you choose to respond on the inside to that which is taking place on the outside.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#7. By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Wayne Dyer

#8. 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

#9. I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

Alison Krauss

#10. 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

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

Richard Brancatisano

#12. 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

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

Gary Zukav

#14. 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

#15. I am an optimist ... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

Tom Hiddleston

#16. The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

George W. Bush

#17. Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

Joyce Meyer

#18. Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

#19. In the Mongol perspective, challenges choose us, but we choose how to respond. Destiny brings the opportunities and the misfortunes, and the merit of our lives derives from those unplanned moments.

Jack Weatherford

#20. When you are exposed to others' negativity, you do not need to respond. You can choose to put your attention elsewhere and let their words be a tiny drop in the infinite ocean of your peaceful silence.

Deepak Chopra

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us

Kishore Bansal

#24. Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom ... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

#25. When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Agnes De Mille

#26. The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance.

Viktor E. Frankl

#27. In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.

Iyanla Vanzant

#28. I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

Al Sharpton

#29. When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.

Mark Miller

#30. You may not have chosen what is happening to your body, but you can choose how you respond.

Lee L Jampolsky

#31. 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

#32. I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#33. So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment.

Thomas S. Monson

#34. Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates - a very good game, by the way - I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even

Jeffery Deaver

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

Moffat Machingura

#36. Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Sarah Lewis

#37. When it comes to picking parts, I do make an effort to choose parts that I want to do, and not necessarily parts someone else wants me to do, or parts that someone else is going to respond to.

Mila Kunis

#38. 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

#39. I find I have to respond to a character or a story to choose a job.

Juliet Rylance

#40. Leaders do not choose, rather they respond to God choosing them. Thus, the first responsive step of leadership is of utmost importance. It is an act of rebellion against the society of the spectacle - It is to relinquish a life of many options so that you can receive God's one option.

Mark Sayers

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

Arianna Huffington

#42. Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general. It's not necessarily the way that they respond sexually and emotionally to the person they choose to live with.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Epictetus

#44. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Walter Anderson

#45. Every time one person chooses a new way to respond to the challenges of life, each time an individual chooses a new option, that person then becomes a living bridge for all the others who choose to follow in that person's path.

Gregg Braden

#46. ... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love.

Raphael Zernoff

#47. Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

Melody Beattie

#48. Most important, he realized that, no matter what happened, he retained the freedom to choose how to respond to his suffering.

Viktor E. Frankl

#49. 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

#50. You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.

Raphael Zernoff

#51. 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

#52. Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication,
there is a delay in receiving the expected gift.
He has guaranteed that he will respond
in what He chooses for you,
and not what you choose for yourself,
and at the time He chooses
not the time you desire.

Ibn Ata Allah