Crisis Quotes

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Living, Idiot, Face

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Truth, Real

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

Two, Word, Written

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel

Mean, Before, Serious

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

Hell, Moral, Times

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger

Cannot, Next, Week

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.
Ron Paul

Big, Rejection, Personal

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
Magic Johnson

True, Friends, Face

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
Barack Obama

Time, Ourselves, Knew

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.
Timothy Dalton

Struggle, Real, After

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
Richard M. Nixon

Life, History, Hard

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson

Death, Hurt, May

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Friend, Salvation

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.
Mark Zuckerberg

Help, Friends, Big

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Doug Coupland

Good, Spiritual, Moment

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.
Cornel West

Life, Power, Thinking

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle

Character, Makes, Action

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Life, Game, Battle

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. Wells

Today, Tomorrow, Joke

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Leader, Action, Almost

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott

Great, Men, Strong

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
Maxwell Maltz

Show, Either, Stay

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
George W. Bush

Strength, Become, Growth

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Paul Ryan

History, Future, Children

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.
Paul Ryan

Control, Cannot, Challenge

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
Stanislav Grof

Hope, Real, Might

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
Tom Harkin

Health, Care, America

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Robert Orben

Humor, Fight, Laugh

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Norman Cousins

Great, Him, Once

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