65 Turbulence Quotes On Success In Life

These turbulence quotes will inspire you. Turbulence is the quality or state of being a turbulent or violent or unsteady movement of air or water, or of some other fluid.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging turbulence quotes, turbulence sayings, and turbulence proverbs.

Best Turbulence Quotes

1. “When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.” ~ Werner Heisenberg
2. “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” ~ Peter Drucker
3. “Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.” ~ Ramsey Clark

4. “Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.” ~ Richard P. Feynman

5. “In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.” ~ John F. Kennedy
6. “In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.” ~ Brian Tracy
7. “In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.” ~ Allen Klein

8. “Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.” ~ Walter J. Phillips

9. “When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.” ~ Radhanath Swami
10. “To fly, we have to have resistance. It’s all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.” ~ Maya Lin
11. “The 7 Principles for Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desires 1. You are a ripple in the fabric of the cosmos 2. Through the mirror of relationships you discover your nonlocal self 3. Master your inner dialogue 4. Your intent weaves the tapestry of the universe 5. Harness your emotional turbulence 6. Celebrate the dance of the cosmos 7. Access the conspiracy of improbabilities Living synchrodestiny & spontaneous fulfillment of desires.” ~ Deepak Chopra , Emotional turbulence quotes

12. “Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calmin the midst of so much turbulence.” ~ Paul McCartney

13. “Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.” ~ Will Durant
14. “For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.” ~ Will Durant
15. “My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I’m thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport.” ~ Dennis Miller

16. “The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market” ~ Benoit Mandelbrot

17. “The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her duty. I know the effort, I know the expense. I know the difficulties through which one may go to uncover one name. I know our Heavenly Father is aware of these efforts. And those for whom we perform sacred ordinances are aware of our efforts. Oftentimes, in a miraculous way, there shall appear before us a clear pathway through a field of turbulence.” ~ Thomas S. Monson
18. “On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, companions in awakening from fear.” ~ Pema Chodron
19. “If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what’s happened. But science can’t help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.” ~ Karen Armstrong

20. “but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

21. “I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it’s funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.” ~ Emmitt Smith
22. “The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a “turbulence and a folly” that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob.” ~ Lewis H. Lapham
23. “I don’t like to fly. What’s it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs… I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.” ~ Chanel Iman

24. “When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.” ~ Kevin Kelly

25. “The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.” ~ Junot Diaz , Relationship turbulence quotes
26. “I don’t like to fly. I’ve never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms… The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It’s awkward for everyone around.” ~ Sandra Bullock
27. “One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power – but he is ill equipped for life’s true adventure into the infinite.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

28. “Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.” ~ Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

29. “After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.” ~ Salvatore Quasimodo
30. “Flying is awful, there’s nothing to do when you’re up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I’m terrified.” ~ Daniela Pestova
31. “Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance.” ~ William Wordsworth

32. “Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.” ~ E. B. White

33. “Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life.” ~ Vita Sackville-West
34. “Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing bones became arms and hands; perhaps I’m de-evolving.” ~ Gretel Ehrlich
35. “My concept is, until you absolutely know the plane is crashing, there’s no reason to be afraid. All the turbulence in the world does not mean the plane is crashing. Once it’s confirmed, then you can be afraid.” ~ Nile Rodgers

36. “I’m an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason – I just sob if there’s turbulence.” ~ Samantha Bond

37. “When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.” ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
38. “I think any genuine leader today has to learn leadership the hard way-by doing it. That means embracing turbulence and crisis, not avoiding it. It means “flying through the thunderstorm.” That’s not to say that there are no basic principles to orient you to the challenge. Indeed, I describe some in the book. But there are no simple recipes. Until you have lived it, you don’t really know how to do it. That’s what I mean by “leadership the hard way.”” ~ Dov Frohman
39. “Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.” ~ Elif Safak

40. “Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.” ~ Haim Ginott

41. “But there is always creative destruction in markets: there are always new winners taking the place of those that are. So if you only look at the market’s surface, it may appear flat, but there’s always huge turbulence taking place within.” ~ Kerr Neilson
42. “In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.” ~ Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
43. “There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.” ~ E. B. White

44. “There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.” ~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman

45. “The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand – though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.” ~ Robert Kennedy
46. “Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.” ~ James Madison
47. “Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?” ~ Henry Mintzberg

48. “When the economic orthodoxy can no longer deliver, political turbulence follows. That doesn’t mean the left will win, but it means there is an opportunity to be seized.” ~ Alex Nunns

49. “Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.” ~ Francis Picabia
50. “Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and incredible confusion around gender norms that’s only going to accelerate.” ~ Stephen Marche
51. “Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.” ~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

52. “At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.” ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

53. “Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant.” ~ Robin Sharma
54. “A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.” ~ Kara Walker
55. “We meant to temporarily disable her,” Ian said. “Just a drop. But Natalie slipped during air turbulence. Before we could warn your nose-ringed nanny, she drenched us. Luckily, she allowed us to retrieve the antidote from our carry-on.” “That’s kindness,” Amy said. “I made them agree to give me all their cash,” Nellie explained. “That’s bribery,” Natalie grumbled.” ~ Peter Lerangis

56. “Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama.” ~ Jay Leno

57. “My God, he couldn’t help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about — acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.” ~ Richard Russo
58. “There’s a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It’s a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life… the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it’s target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.” ~ Andrew Davidson
59. “Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.” ~ Richard Corliss

60. “If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.” ~ Michael O’Leary

61. “In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. … The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.” ~ Queen Elizabeth II
62. “Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that it is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it. This difficulty to one, who is of no party, and whose sole wish is to pursue with undeviating steps a path which would lead this country to respectability, wealth, and happiness, is exceedingly to be lamented. But such, for wise purposes, it is presumed, is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory more than truth is the palm contended for.” ~ George Washington

63. “Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean’s depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.” ~ Kathleen McDonald

64. “Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavors to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does anything but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favor.” ~ Samuel Johnson
65. “The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.” ~ Xi Jinping

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