Top 100 How You Respond Quotes
#1. Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity.
Robin S. Sharma
#2. Life doesn't just happen to you. It's all about choices and how you respond to every situation.
Jack Canfield
#3. How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz
#4. It's like you're surfing ... The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.
Trey Anastasio
#5. It is not what you believe that matters; it is how you respond with your heart and your actions. It is not believing in Christ that matters; it is becoming like him
Pelagius
#6. 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
#7. Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.
Rick Warren
#8. I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
Anna Sui
#9. Well, you can't control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it ... whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they're doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you'll let it affect you
Jennifer Weiner
#10. Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.
Amalie Howard
#11. Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.
Ken Blanchard
#13. Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.
Michele Cassou
#14. Scared. That's good. A fine soldier is always scared. Makes you normal. It's how you respond to it that makes or breaks you.
James Dashner
#15. You are not judged by your success, but rather, how you respond to your failures.
T.W. Brown
#16. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, but you have to know you're going to make mistakes. It's how you respond to those mistakes that counts.
Sue Bird
#17. To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.
Glenne Headly
#18. It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it.
Debasish Mridha
#19. You may not have chosen what is happening to your body, but you can choose how you respond.
Lee L Jampolsky
#20. What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.
Katherine Center
#21. Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.
A.S.A Harrison
#22. In addition to thinking aloud about your processing of text, plan to show students how you respond to the completion of an organizer or write a constructed response.
Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins
#23. How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them.
Marilyn Suttle
#25. 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
#26. Individual sins (committing a homosexual act, doing drugs, getting drunk, etc.) aren't what send you to hell. Your sins have been forgiven, but the sin that'll send you to hell is not accepting the payment for those sins. Everything revolves around how you respond to Jesus.
Andrew Wommack
#27. How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.
Stormie O'martian
#28. Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including - most significantly - how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it.
Ogyen Trinley Dorje
#29. The champions of the faith were ordinary people, but how they responded to their trials is what makes them our heroes. Remember this when you face your own trials, because how you respond will impact other people.
Larry Fox
#30. Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
Steve Backley
#31. When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference
Tony Dungy
#32. One of the main coaching points I've heard throughout my entire life is, 'How you respond to difficult situations defines your character,' and I think it's a good saying. I also think it applies to more than just the players.
Chris Kluwe
#33. Don't make excuses; accept responsibility.
You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life; whether you cause it or not. Making excuses is a weak response!
Michelle Word Hollis
#34. Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.
Rob Bell
#35. Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.
Rick Warren
#36. How you respond to authority over you says a lot about what you claim to believe. When your standard of living is Christ-centered, you invariably live to honor others.
Kevin Thoman
#37. Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.
Joel Osteen
#38. Life changes. It's usually in the blink of an eye. One minute everything's fine, if not stagnant; then, it's not. But your character's not defined by what happens to you but by how you respond to those emotionally significant events. Who will you become when your life turns on a dime?
Bobby Cole
#39. You can't escape misfortune in life. But you can change how you respond to it.
Amy Morin
#40. You can't control what anyone else says or does." Spencer tucked a wayward lock behind her ear. "But you can control how you respond to them.
Terri Osburn
#41. It's not our job to make people like us if they don't want to. It's not our job to change people. That's beyond our control. But what you CAN control is how you respond to it.
Taylor Swift
#42. It's everyone's responsibility to build up other women rather than tear them down. Be self-aware and proactive. It's not wrong to have those thoughts, but you can change how you respond to those feelings. Take a mental step back, and think about why you're feeling that way.
Lilly Singh
#43. When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
Portia De Rossi
#44. Life is going to happen to you. Your destiny will be found in how you respond to life. Most let fate find them; the few find their destiny.
Shay Dawkins
#45. Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it.
Shubhra Krishan
#46. You alone are responsible for what you do, don't do, or how you respond to what's done to you.
Darren Hardy
#47. The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#48. 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
#49. I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.
Hillary Clinton
#50. Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.
Joe Posnanski
#51. You are magnificent - a jewel reflecting inwardly and outwardly, the light of the universe. Observe how you respond to beauty everywhere - you bear witness to everything. Be aware that you, yourself, are an inextricable part of the infinite creative intelligence, and be blessed.
Jay Woodman
#52. This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.
Chan Ho Park
#53. Your true power lies in how you respond to life's curves. Your best choice of course ... is to always keep your joy
Timothy Pina
#54. It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.
Sumner Davenport
#55. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.
Isaac Marion
#56. 'Tell me about yourself.' When interviewers ask this, they don't want to hear about everything that has happened in your life; the interviewer's objective is to see how you respond to this vague yet personal question.
Travis Bradberry
#57. There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.
Isaac Marion
#58. The beauty of life depends on how you respond not in how true you answer.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.
Katharine Weber
#60. To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.
Dalai Lama
#61. All discomfort is not equal. Learning to listen will help you distinguish among effort, fatigue and pain. To what degree, under what conditions and over what period of time your body experiences these sensations will determine how you respond.
Gina Greenlee
#62. It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.
Steve Berry
#63. So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
Anthony Caro
#64. When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows
David Viscott
#65. You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.
Anne Fortier
#66. Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
Bernie Siegel
#67. Be willing to give people a second chance. You'd be surprised how well people respond to another opportunity to succeed.
Robert Cheeke
#68. You've grown tired of your four-year-old pointing to words and asking, "What does this say?" Apparently it's not okay to respond to them with, "It says, 'Learn how to read.'
Jim Gaffigan
#69. I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.
Sheryl Swoopes
#70. 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
#71. Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#72. 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
#73. What is she to you?" she whispers. The real question and I know the answer even if I don't know how to say it. Drew's muffled voice rises up from the floor before I can respond. "Family," he says. And he's right.
Katja Millay
#74. It is your decision what kind of person you will be, how you will respond to the challenges you face. Keep your promises, forgo your grudges, apologize when necessary, speak your love, and speak it again.
David A. Goodman
#75. Launch your product or service before you have funding. See how people respond to it before you have a PowerPoint and business plan - have something people can use, and go from there.
Chad Hurley
#76. A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.
Linus Roache
#77. As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
Daniel Craig
#78. I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.
Debby Ryan
#79. Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
Malcolm Bradbury
#80. The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.
Nancy O'Meara
#81. To tell others that
It is a rumor
Will not do.
When your own heart asks
How will you respond?
Gosen Wakashu
#82. It's the old elephant hunter joke, where a guy asserts he's the local elephant hunter, you respond that there aren't any elephants around there, and he, of course, says 'Yeah, see how good I am?
Ryk E. Spoor
#83. You don't know how people are going to respond. But I would add to that, that getting your heart broken is not the worst thing and it's actually quite unavoidable. I think in some ways I had to break my father's heart and then face that in order to have a real relationship with him.
Melissa Febos
#84. Each person's journey is different. If something - anything - does not feel right to you, then you alone get to decide whether you will honor it or not. The choice of how to respond to your situation is yours - and will always be yours.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#85. No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.
Brian Tracy
#86. 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
#87. When you preach hatred, how do you expect your followers to respond?
Melissa Landers
#88. 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
#89. With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don't have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation.
Debbie Ford
#90. Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.
Dan Miller
#91. You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.
Kerry Washington
#92. You can always create, seek, and find a range of options to determine how you will respond to what happens, and how you will play the cards in your hand.
Henry Cloud
#93. The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience.
Michael Silverblatt
#94. 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
#95. As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.
Juan Antonio Bayona
#96. Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.
Cathy Moriarty
#97. It's a little scary, what you do."
As I tried to figure out how to respond, and with words as sharp and cold as the blade of a knife, Criminy said, "If you're scared of her talent, then you don't truly know what fear is.
Delilah S. Dawson
#98. You're thinking too hard about how to respond to my stupidity. Have to be polite don't you?
Jodi Meadows
#99. If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
Tullian Tchividjian
#100. Love wasn't a happening one decided on
to indulge or not, to partake or not. To feel or not. When it came, when it struck, the only decision left to make was how to respond
whether you embraced it, took it in, and made it a part of you, or whether you turned your back and let it die.
Stephanie Laurens
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