There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather

• education
• crisis

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing a threat - men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority comes graceful and beloved as a bride. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• pressure
• crisis

In seasons of tumult and discord, bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness. Tacitus

• power
• crisis

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Thomas Paine

• patriotism
• crisis

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A moment of conscious triumph makes one feel that after this nothing will really matter; a moment of realized disaster makes one feel that this is the end of everything. But neither feeling is realistic, for neither event is really what it is felt to be. J. I. Packer

• emotion
• crisis

Character is not made in a crisis - it is only exhibited. Robert Freeman

• character
• crisis

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

• heroes
• crisis

Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable. Milton Friedman

• ideas
• crisis

It was always my goal to create and maintain a working environment both on and off the field that had a sense of urgency and intensity but did not feel like we were in constant crisis mode. Bill Walsh

• crisis

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