Top 100 Quotes About Poise
#1. I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.
-Toby
Seanan McGuire
#2. A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.
Donald Kingsbury
#3. Courage isn't being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#4. The child who has been taught to love the process of growing, learning and taking on new challenges and experiences can face life with confidence and poise. The
Tara Woods Turner
#5. Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.
Henry Adams
#6. That was undeniable. But what was also undeniable on this pressure-filled afternoon was Nishikori's poise and grit.
Anonymous
#7. For poise, I picked up a stone and threw it at a tree.
J.D. Salinger
#8. To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
William Arthur Ward
#9. Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she's wearing.
Alexandra Daddario
#10. Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.
Wallace D. Wattles
#11. The key to winning is poise under stress.
Paul Brown
#12. Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige ...
James Thurber
#13. The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.
Robert R. Shannon
#14. Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.
Sid Waddell
#15. For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Sam Levenson
#16. All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.
Swami Vivekananda
#17. The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.
Ivan Illich
#18. To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
John O'Donohue
#19. I am a prince(ss) of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing my kingdom of activity.
Shakuntala Devi
#20. Christ in me" means Christ bearing me along from within, Christ the motive power that carries me on, Christ giving my whole life a wonderful poise and lift, and turning every burden into wings . . . not as something you have to bear but as something by which you are borne.
James Bryan Smith
#21. I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.
Peyton Manning
#22. Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake
Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms.
All flawless hexagons may melt and break;
While you must feel the summer's rage of fire,
Beyond this frigid season's empty storms.
Banished to bloom, and bear the birds' desire.
James Wright
#23. Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.
Maxwell Maltz
#24. Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
William Cranch Bond
#25. 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.
Napoleon Hill
#26. Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you".
John Wooden
#27. The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#28. I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
Najib Razak
#30. On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.
Martina Navratilova
#31. The Cobalt Empire is the largest, known for their regal poise, intellectual prowess, and fierce commitment to one another. Each Cobalt is prideful and passionately unique but when push comes to shove.
They'll band together like an army of one.
Becca Ritchie
#32. Poise the cause in justice's equal scales,
Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
William Shakespeare
#33. A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.
Frederick Lenz
#34. There was a dark aura about him, a hint of caged power in that deceptively casual, sprawled poise. Danger personified.
If this had been a film she would have expected to hear the warning wail of an electric guitar creep over the soft background bustle of the city.
Heather R. Blair
#35. Poise is an unseen power,
And this unseen power is always ready
To come to the aid of the outer action.
Sri Chinmoy
#36. PLUTO is the limit for me.
Someday they will spell victory with my T. That day is Today. Don't wait for the green light. Rise, poise, beauty, youth, wear a smile, put some style, straighten those shoulders and walk out BOLD.
Me
#37. Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.
Napoleon Hill
#38. The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. When men in Congress come to blows at somemthing someone said,
I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red;
But if two women disagree, with very little noise,
It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.
Alice Duer Miller
#40. In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson
#41. Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
Billy Casper
#42. If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
Alan Cohen
#43. I will be calmly active, actively calm. I am a prince of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#44. Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#46. Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them
G. Stanley Hall
#47. Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
Seneca The Younger
#49. The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
Maria Montessori
#50. I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.
Ronald Reagan
#51. Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.
Shaquille O'Neal
#52. I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance,complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.
Helen Fielding
#53. Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.
Elie Metchnikoff
#54. There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.
Drew Brees
#55. Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.
Orison Swett Marden
#56. Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?
Nicolas Caussin
#57. Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
Maxwell Maltz
#58. I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
Kathy Griffin
#59. The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
Raymond Chandler
#60. Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.
Ella Maillart
#61. Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.
Marvin J. Ashton
#62. Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
#63. You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [ ... ] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky."
"We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, comes later.
Agatha Christie
#64. But there was something strange about her that made me think she was "somebody." I don't mean her poise, the cool manner in which she stood with arms folded just watching all the goings on at the book party. Kids inherit that poise. It's their enemy, the way ignorance was the enemy of my generation.
Anne Rice
#65. For a moment, I believed you. He ordered me, dryly, recovering his usual poise again.
He does not only have a selective hearing, but a selective understanding as well. I confessed. If he believes me or not, is his problem. Forewarned is not forearmed.
Tionne Rogers
#66. Poise was keeping your knees and your lips together, your eyebrows and your nostrils apart.
Alan Bradley
#67. We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.
Agatha Christie
#68. Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.
Barry S. Strauss
#69. Practicing yoga does not eliminate life's challenges, and neither does it provide us with a convenient trap-door to escape from life's distractions. Instead, Yoga gives us the skills to meet life head-on with dignity and poise.
Donna Farhi
#70. Poise and indifference so often look the same.
Sue Grafton
#71. Guy believed everything in sex should be done slowly so as not to scare the wildlife and to ensure his own natural grace and poise.
Edmund White
#72. It is very extraordinary to see the perfect flush of health on her cheeks, to see the lustre of her coiled black hair, the poise of the head upon the neck, the grace of the white hands - and to think that it all means nothing - that it is a picture without a meaning. Yes, it is queer.
Ford Madox Ford
#73. One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
Don DeLillo
#74. I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.
Thomas Haden Church
#75. And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.
Lawrence Hargrave
#76. Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
Al Spalding
#77. At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
P.G. Wodehouse
#78. Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on peace, poise, security and divine guidance and your mind will be productive of happiness.
Joseph Murphy
#79. Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
Earl Wilson
#80. Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.
John Wooden
#81. Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].
Joseph Pilates
#82. Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#83. Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. It is refreshing, and salutary, to study the poise and quietness of Christ. His task and responsibility might well have driven a man out of his mind. But He was never in a hurry, never impressed by numbers, never a slave of the clock.
J.B. Phillips
#86. Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
Gautama Buddha
#87. Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#88. He'd managed to take hold of her being, her poise and twisted it that it'd mutilated so bad. Even she had forgotten how it had felt to be sane.
Diyar Harraz
#89. The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#90. When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow?
George Steiner
#91. Using poise is not being fake; it is being professional, strong, and composed.
Tanya R. Liverman
#92. Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.
Wilferd Peterson
#93. Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.
Maxwell Maltz
#94. We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.
Charles Alexander Eastman
#95. I need poise. I'm just so clumsy that it would kind of save me a lot.
Brea Grant
#96. It is so still and transcendent, the cypress trees poise like flames of forgotten darkness, that should have been blown out at the end of the summer. For as we have candles to light the darkness of night, so the cypresses are candles to keep the darkness aflame in the full sunshine.
D.H. Lawrence
#97. In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.
O. Henry
#98. Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise, whatever happens.
Frederick Lenz
#99. When you don't hold your pipe with the proper poise, smoking is very hazardous for your image.
Bauvard
#100. The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.
Thomas Hardy
