Scipio Africanus Quotes

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

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?

I don't feed into negativity. I thankfully don't. That's just me.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

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.

I try to put a positive spin on things.

I think it's important to try to find the positives. Then, look at the things that you don't like and see if you can change them or not.

I've learned in my life that I have to focus on the things that I can control and what I can control is what comes out of my mouth and how I respond to people.

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

I try to keep a positive attitude about everything.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.