Poise Quotes

Poise Quote of the day

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.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

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].

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

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.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

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.

I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

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.

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

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.

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

On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.

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.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

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.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

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.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

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.

Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

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.

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

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.

Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

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.

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

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

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?

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.

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.

One woman's poise is another woman's poison.

People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

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.

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.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.

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.