Composure Quotes

• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Courage, Yoga

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Anger, Hockey

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• Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

  Byron Nelson

  Inspirational, Sports, Golf

  Byron Nelson, Larry Dennis (1976). “Shape your swing the modern way”, Golf Digest/Tennis

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• Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Emotional, Evil People, Soul

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• It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Smart, Time Keeping, Mma

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• Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Change, Perfect, Worry

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

  Eric Thomas

  Silence, Leader, Crowds

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• I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

  Mitch Albom

  People, Trying, World

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.21, Broadway Books

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• Losing composure is pointless.

  Michael Schumacher

  Losing, Pointless

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• When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

  Chris Evert

  Loss, Play, Giving

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• When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.

  Bob Toski

  Successful, Player, Three

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• Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

  Francois Fenelon

  Order, Taste, Few Words

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• In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity.

  Martin Schulz

  People, Wish, Upheaval

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in.

  Amanda Beard

  Race, Water, Goggles

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Change, Suffering, Management

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

  Herman Melville

  People, Knows, Estimation

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• To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty

  John Keats

  Naked, Bears, Calm

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.207, Рипол Классик

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

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Spiritual, Perfect, Midst

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• We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

  Robert Frost

  Garden, Order, Color

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• Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Desire, Deeds

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

  George D. Prentice

  Firsts, Wit, Rate

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• People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit total control of all the elements that lead to victory. - total composure.

  Jean-Claude Killy

  Leadership, Sports, Availability

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• Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future. You shall be warned of dangers and shall be guided through the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Prayer, Attitude

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Glowing, Hot And Cold

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• Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys. It was to give an impression of composure, some self-assurance, and to counter the feminine appearance.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Boys, Self, Hands

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