Quotes about Composure

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

Great is the advantage of patience.

They are not easily irritated or annoyed. Some people seem to be able to rise above their irritations and they are fun to be with because they are poised and even-tempered. They seem to live on an upper level emotionally and are not easily riled up. They keep in a good humor and spirit.

Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise.

On October 23, 1963, Barefoot in the Park opened on Broadway. Just before his extremely nervous cast took the stage, Nichols gathered them for a final pep talk. "Everybody relax," Redford says he told them. "You know your positions, you know your laughs, you know your lines, you know where the comfort zones are. So enjoy yourselves, and remember: Everything depends on tonight.

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you".

Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.

Leisure with dignity.

The same grace that transports us to heaven also gives us composure when our flights are delayed or the traffic is jammed up.

Then he washed his face and came back out. Regaining his composure, he said, “Serve the meal.”

There is such a thing as a false composure which is quite unchristian. As Christians, we needn't be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for freedom, earthly happiness, and opportunity for effective work.