Response Quotes

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

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.

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

If you give me a week, I might think of one.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

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

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

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the default of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

I found myself often asking the question, "Who deserves to be made fun of?" Depending on your mood, the answer can be no one or everyone. It took me a while to understand the math of how those field pieces came together. I don't think that ridicule is ever funny, but there are times when that gets the biggest response.

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

When I talk to idiots, I get loud!

We are deploying battle groups, battalions, which we consider necessary to convey a message of deterrence, credible deterrence, that if one NATO ally is attacked, it will trigger a whole response from the whole alliance.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?

Life responds to deserve and not to need.

Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved.

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Everything in life is how you respond to it. If everything went perfect all the time - you never lost a game, you got to the championship every time, you always won, you always got the top recruit, you always made the A - you really wouldn't truly appreciate all that goes into it.

Each crisis brings its word and deed.