Poise Quotes · Page 2

When I say I need a queen, I need a woman of principle and poise.

— Omarion

“Your posture is the key to your personal and professional foundation.”

— Cindy Ann Peterson

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

— Alan Cohen

“No amount of high fashion can make up for a lifetime of poor posture.”

— Cindy Ann Peterson

I need poise. I'm just so clumsy that it would kind of save me a lot.

— Brea Grant

“Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself.”

— Cindy Ann Peterson

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

— John Wooden

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— James Russell Lowell

Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the…

— Elie Metchnikoff

The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be…

— Robert R. Shannon

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if…

— Anonymous

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise…

— O. Henry

Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and…

— Barry S. Strauss

Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty,…

— Wilferd Peterson

I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has…

— Najib Razak

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

— Ella Maillart

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and…

— Annie Dillard

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do…

— Horatio Dresser

I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your…

— Bear Bryant

“It has been said that poise is our highest state of consciousness. It reflects your presence, composure, balance, gratitude, discretion, and self-respect.…

— Susan C. Young

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your…

— Nathaniel Branden

In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most…

— Steve Sheinkin

The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none…

— Raymond Chandler

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm sure surfing developed my poise better than any exercise could have accomplished.

— Laird Hamilton

To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.

— John O'Donohue

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Billy Casper

“Our nonverbal behavior (including posture) gives away our inner personality and reflects our inner attitude.”

— Cindy Ann Peterson

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Albert Goodwill Spalding

“In all areas of your life, striving for proper posture can enhance your career, style and health.”

— Cindy Ann Peterson

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

— William Cranch Bond

“By taking good care of your posture now, you will enjoy and savor lifelong health benefits and beauty.”

— Cindy Ann Peterson

Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and…

— John Wooden

Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward…

— Maxwell Maltz

Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results…

— Joseph Pilates

I will be calmly active, actively calm. I am a prince of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing the kingdom…

— Paramahansa Yogananda