Storm

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
- Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865

Courage is not the towering oak
That sees storms come and go;
It is the fragile blossom
That opens in the snow.
- Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
- Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 - 1832

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
- Faye Wattleton

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
- Willa Silbert Cather, 1873 - 1947