Quotes on Crisis

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 quitness.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

• crisis
• patriotism

Understand the context.

This is the source.

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
• triumph
• crisis

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

• character
• crisis