“Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.”
Jim Elliot
“A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.”
Ralph W. Sockman
“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.”
Norman Cousins
“Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.”
“Man, I had a pretty good plan until this latest crisis,”
Ray Nagin