Crisis Quotes
1395 Crisis quotes by 997 unique authors
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The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save…
— Kofi Annan
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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides…
— Iris Chang
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time,…
— Robert Collier
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Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
— William Moulton Marston
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The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
— Jean Houston
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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.
— Douglas Coupland
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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual…
— Richard M. Nixon
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The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Life is a crisis - so what!
— Malcolm Bradbury
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We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in…
— Eric Hoffer
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should…
— Ludwig von Mises
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In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that…
— Susan L. Taylor
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to…
— Vernon Howard
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field…
— Thomas Kuhn
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The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us…
— Muhammad Yunus
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use…
— George Washington
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I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure.. like right now the…
— Magic Johnson
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to…
— Denis Diderot
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