Reaction Quotes

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.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc; but how few acknowledge these as God’s special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

I don’t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.