Best 32 quotes in «composure quotes» category

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.

Losing composure is pointless.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.

composure, n. You told me anyway, even though I didn’t want to know. A stupid drunken fling while you were visiting Toby in Austin. Months ago. And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened. If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it. You wait for my response.

But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things.

Calmness has the power to leave dirty water as clean water on top of dirt.

Composure, a level head, a knowledge of what you want done, and why you want it done and faith in your own ability to have it done gives composure to the whole school. Restlessness, lack of faith in self, fear of failure, these bring about the very conditions you are striving to avoid,

Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

He’d pushed it back, where he’d kept the thought for weeks, but it wouldn’t stay. Wouldn’t stop. Wouldn’t let him go.

If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Syme, staring. "The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation.

I love too sleep like a baby, with no worries hindering my fairytale quest of eternal joy, passion and humility. Therefrom one shall enjoy the beauty of life by acknowledging the existence of surrounding beauty and what the gods made for fun.

Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?

My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.

No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.

Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for considering an insult with all the fear running rampant in his mind. Maybe he was quiet on the outside, but he knew he was running around screaming inside his thoughts.

It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one’s judgement.

Never act surprised in a courtroom.

To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con, at will; to condescend to them, for a few hours; to seat oneself on them as on a horse, often as on an ass — for one must know how to make use of their stupidity as much as of their fire. To reserve one's three hundred foregrounds; also the dark glasses; for there are cases when nobody may look into our eyes, still less into our "grounds." And to choose for company that impish and cheerful vice, courtesy. And to remain master of one's four virtues: of courage, insight, sympathy, and solitude.

Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future.

- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment of self-confidence.' -

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

We're all under pressure Strangled by stresses If you treasure what you do have That's the success, that's most impressive

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure