Reaction Management Quotes

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.

I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

Whether you respond to life or react to life determines how far you're gonna go in life.

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.'

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not in my control.