Top 475 Crises Quotes & Sayings

You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

In your 20s, crises tend to be about whether you are making the correct decisions for the rest of your life, namely in your job and relationship. In your 30s, work-related issues and break-ups feature prominently. In your 40s, for women bereavement is often an issue. For men, it is still to do with their job but it has moved to "Holy crap, I've got a lot to do". In your 50s, you get features of both early and later life crises - bereavement and ill health. And that continues in your 60s, with retirement-related issues and heightened awareness of mortality.

None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.

Financial crises require governments.

Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.

I'm not going to say that I'm perfect. I do have fashion crises.

It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

Crises can never break the one who relies on God's strength.

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

India has always come out of crises renewed and on a higher growth path.

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business.

Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

All crises, once averted, become jokes.

In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises - like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s - then our economic future will be very different from our recent past.

No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.

India is no stranger to crises - wars, hijackings, plane crashes - we have seen them all.

When there is pressure for leaders to respond to problems or crises, they often simply intensify their efforts in their particular defined sphere of activity - even if that's not relevant to the real problem. To do otherwise requires taking on entrenched practices and asserting power in areas where it often will not be well received. And leaders tend to see major crises more as threats to their own position rather than as systemic challenges for the societies that they govern or the institutions that they manage.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

The IMF is set up to deal with liquidity crises.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

Even boredom has its crises.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

Collaborative decision-making is very poor in crises.

I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these crises. The past has shown us we are able to do things we never imagined we would be able to do.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

God doesn't want your crises-mode promises.

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

Crises in themselves are highly educational.

Crises precede transformation.

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.

The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.

Just as crises can provide a test of anyone's character, they do so especially with presidents.