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The dictionary defines crisis as a “time of great trouble, danger, or difficulty.” Crisis comes in different forms and shapes. Every person has faced a crisis in their life.
Some people have successfully been able to pull through a crisis while others are still struggling to find their way.
But regardless of whether you are a champion, or have been defeated by your circumstances, if you look at the words of these famous and successful people, you will be inspired to move ahead even when you are tempted to turn back.
Here are inspirational and wise quotes about overcoming challenges and crisis in virtually any area, of life.
Quotes On How To Face Crisis:
"I really think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some ways" - Martha Beck
"Winners are losers who stood up and tried again." - Dennis DeYoung
Adversity can test and toughen a person more than success. – Ernest Hemingway
You’re supposed to suffer and get hurt before you get wise. You’re supposed to lose, but if you don’t lose, how do you know you’ve been winning? – Kurt Vonnegut
A true success story requires more courage than a life of happiness, and many people would rather go back to mediocrity than face the hard-won lessons of success. – Arnold Murray
“We are not discouraged because every path seems steeped in the blood of heroes; every path seems filled with the graves of the unknown dead.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“I want to build a great company. I want to have a big, happy family. I want a house in the suburbs. I want to be safe. I want all of that. But none of that is what I am.” – Steve Jobs
“It is possible to have a great deal of success without having great amounts of failure.” – Earl Nightingale
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Warren Buffett
“Failure is success with no followers.” – Thomas Edison
“My definition of success is simple: being the person I want to be. It’s a funny thing about being successful. If you want to be, you will. If you don’t want to be, you’ll never succeed.” – Jim Henson
“Success is a road built one mile at a time.” – Vince Lombardi
“To fail in the attempt to succeed, in the attempt to do something of importance, is not to fail at all.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Success is my reality.” – Tony Gwynn
“Success is just an instant in time.” – Robert Evans
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou.
“When you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill.
“It doesn’t matter if we fail, as long as we have the courage to continue.” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
“People often succeed where they failed before.” – John D. Rockefeller Sr.
“We are all born with dreams and hopes, but very few with the drive and determination to follow them.” – Winston Churchill.
“If one wants to see the effect of success, he should see it in the life of one who at every moment of his work remains close to failure.” – Abraham Lincoln.
“The key to happiness is happiness. The way to have more happiness is to give more happiness.” – Albert Schweitzer.
“You may well stumble over the truth, but you cannot possibly stumble over yourself.” – Frankl
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, gratitude, compassion and humor.” – Denis Waitley.
“I think one of the greatest lessons I ever learned is to appreciate everything that life has to offer.” – Billie Joe Armstrong.
“Successful people are people who understand the value of being able to admit when they were wrong, and they are committed to learning from their mistakes.” – Donald Trump.
“I never dreamed there was a magic formula for success. But there is. It’s called enthusiasm. If you can learn to be excited by your work, to be enthusiastic, it makes all the difference in the world.” – Tony Robbins.
“Success is a journey, not a destination.” – Henry David Thoreau.
“I am a very happy person. I don’t know how to be not happy, really.” – Steve Jobs.
“The main requirement for a happy life is a happy family.” – Albert Einstein.
“Success is a nice problem to have.” – Winston Churchill.
“Success is the best revenge.” – Alfred Stieglitz.
“I don’t believe in failure. I believe in success. And I know that when a man gives all he has got, all his strength, and all his ability, and every ounce of his will to the solution of a problem, he is giving all the success he has.” – Theodore Roosevelt.
“I am no good to others, unless they help make me better.” – Abraham Lincoln.
“The successful person is the one who is too busy to be concerned with failure.” – Thomas Edison.
“In my case, it was just being myself, and being comfortable with the way I am. I didn’t have a plan. I just started doing things, one by one, and it took off.” – Marlon Brando.
“Remember when life gave you lemons, that you’re not just going to let them go to waste. Make lemonade.” – Oprah Winfrey.
“The very powerful and the very good are almost always busy fighting each other.” – Theodore Roosevelt.
“He is just a human being trying to make a living for himself and his family. The fact that someone is rich doesn’t mean they are important or significant.” – Oprah Winfrey.
“As the only person I knew in high school who was a Christian Scientist, I had a very difficult time reconciling the fact that faith was the key to my success, but I wasn’t happy.” – Donald Trump.
“Most people will achieve success in a different field than the one in which they trained and prepared.” – William A. Riggs.