Quotes about Response

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

Your personality means the aspect of yourself which makes you effective in life. It is evident that there are two aspects of effectiveness of individuality. First, how do you affect or stimulate others? This is your stimulation value. Second, how do others affect you? How do you respond to others? That is your response aspect of value. Put these together, your effect upon others and others' effect upon you, and that is virtually your personality.

Because so many times what keeps us in that valley of depression, what keeps us in that valley of frustration, is our response to a moment and not recognizing that it is exactly that. It's a moment. It's one scene of your movie. And what makes a great movie are scenes that are put together of great conflict.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Let us remember that each time people treat us in an ill manner, speak evil of us, or make unreasonable demands of us, they are giving us opportunity to react as Christians.

since God's Word is living, he who listens and does not have a living response is he who has not actually heard the Word of God.

The stone had been rolled away... That fact alone demands a response.

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.

Life is 100% what happens to me and 90% of how react to it.

It is easier for most of us to affirm positive behavior than to deal with negative behavior in a positive way.