Ellen Glasgow Quotes

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

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

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?

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

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

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

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 am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

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.

It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.

When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

There are things we can control and the things we can't control. I can't control how people react to the work I do.

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

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.

It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

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.

The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

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.

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.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.