Quotes about Reaction

In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.

How you react to things you can't control will many times determine your stress level. People who regularly get upset over small things are easily frustrated and highly stressed. People who shrug those things off are much happier.

Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories of Catholicism... [A Catholic American soldier's reaction to seeing St. Peter's Basilica during WWII.]

Fear is a self-protection we use to insulate ourselves from hurt by pulling back. Anger is self-protection we use to insulate ourselves from hurt by striking out.

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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.