Foster Friess Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

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

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?

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

I have written and said countless times it is not what happens to you in life that makes a difference! It is how we react to what happens to us in life that creates our history and - more importantly - our future!

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

I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

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

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

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

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.

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

I just try to control what I can control.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

We can only control how we react and how we respond, and that complex but so simple idea helped me survive.

Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.

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.

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

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.