#emergencies

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can. ↗

— William Feather

#daily #each #emergencies #go #meet

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#emergencies #ever #fall #guilty #hand

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. ↗

— Og Mandino

#being overwhelmed #character #emergencies #failure #highway

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #appeal #countries #desperation #emergencies

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#been #emergencies #eroded #individual #individual liberty

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. ↗

— William James

#emergencies #great #greater #had #how

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#man #metal #mind #native #presence

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#emergencies #ever #follow #great #leader

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole) ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#humor #lace #wardrobe #humor