“Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.”

“Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.”

David Gemmell Lion of Macedon

“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 …

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

Jeffrey Gitomer (1946) American writer

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

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author

“But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.”

Jeff Lindsay book Dexter in the Dark

“Suez was a totally unsuccessful attempt to achieve unreasonable and undesirable objectives by methods which were at once reckless and immoral; and the consequences, as was well deserved, were humiliating and disastrous.”

Roy Jenkins (1920–2003) British politician, historian and writer

“No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

“Life is not happening to you, it is responding to you, your thoughts, feelings and deepest desires.”

Ralph Smart