Composure Quotes
68 quotes by 63 authors
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Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.
— Byron Nelson
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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
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The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological…
— Barry Lopez
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We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure…
— Rudolf Steiner
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced…
— A. R. Ammons
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange…
— Simon Schama
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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…
— Bob Toski
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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…
— Boyd K. Packer
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In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure
— Tom Franklin
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The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
— Gabriel Zaid
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Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy…
— Gabriel Zaid
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Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech,…
— Charlotte Beers
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The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional…
— Ashley Montagu
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In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day…
— Christopher Hitchens
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True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having…
— Leon Jouhaux
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The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.
— Joseph Campbell
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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…
— Chris Evert
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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…
— Mitch Albom
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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…
— Jean-Claude Killy
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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…
— Carine Roitfeld
Who Wrote These Composure Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 68 Composure Quotes, led by these top contributors: