Reaction, Reactive, ....

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
- Chris Evert

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
- Rita Mae Brown

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
- Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), 1622 - 1673