“Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.”

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

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

“Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“You can see how the word responsibility is in essence the ability to respond. To become responsible is to step into this ability and chose to both create and respond to your life instead of to passively react to it as if it is happening to you. It is stepping into authority over yourself. It is a highly empowered state. It is a state of accountability.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer