Times Of Crisis Quotes

• In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.

  Stuart Wilde

  Encouragement, Levels, Crisis

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• A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry.
  It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.

  Desmond Tutu

  Opportunity, Giving, Worry

  Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

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• In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know

  Will Rogers

  People, Training, Care

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• The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Country, Greatness, Compassion

  "Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 29, 1972.

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• Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Faith, Encouragement

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• These are the times that try men's souls.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Motivation

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  People, Survival, May

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• You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Crisis, Real Change

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• Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Mean, People

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• 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, Fighting, Two

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.7, Main Street Books

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• A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.

  Tom Landry

  Sports, Team, Character

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• Leaders flourish in times of crisis.

  Andrew Wommack

  Leader, Crisis

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• We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis

  Johnnie Cochran

  Crisis, Judged

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• Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Investing, Cash

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• I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.

  Christine Lagarde

  Jobs, Issues, Space

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• In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

  Unknown

  Politics, Importance, Crisis

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• In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

  Jose Marti

  World, Crisis, Knows

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• Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leader, Crisis

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• ... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, War, Sacrifice

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

  Mark Zandi

  Government, Important, Way

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• The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Men, Ideas, Majority

  Leonard Peikoff (1983). “Ominous Parallels”, p.179, Penguin

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• When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Power, Giving, Filling

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Leader, Good Leader, Crisis

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• The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.

  George W. Bush

  Faithful, Hardest Times, Wells

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• When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

  Milton Friedman

  Ideas, Floating, Made

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