Quote by William James

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

— William James

“Disasters have a way of making us stronger in the broken places. ”

— James Lee Witt

“Disasters are an opportunity for the worst of humanity. And the best.”

— A.G. Riddle

“My experience has taught me that all of us have a reservoir of untapped strength that comes to the fore at moments of crisis.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“We must work together to strengthen our response to a terrorist attack, a tragic accident, or a natural disaster.”

— Historica Press

“Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis…

— Audre Lorde

“Sometimes preventing one disaster creates a much larger disaster in its wake.”

— K. Huber

“Meeting smaller emergencies and learning to deal with them had given me the confidence to deal with this larger emergency. So, little by little,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“We are the masters of our own disasters.”

— Anonymous

“Whenever disaster strikes around the world, America is one of the first nations to offer up people and other resources to help.”

— John Dreese

“Everything is an emergency. If you don’t like emergencies, this isn’t the place for you.”

— A.G. Riddle

“keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as oportunity.”

— Adeline Yen Mah