Jerry Bridges Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

It's inevitable that tough situations will come up, but it's how you react that is the challenge.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

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

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

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.

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

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

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

You can have nothing and be sad, or you can have nothing and be, like, positive and look at it in a good way and try to make your circumstance better.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.