Best Poise Quotes
68 Poise quotes by 61 unique authors
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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…
— G. Stanley Hall
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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…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact,…
— Kathleen Tessaro
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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…
— Frederick Lenz
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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…
— Barry S. Strauss
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Human nature is such that humans can turn to God anywhere at any time, and by believing in His care and protection, and thinking in…
— Emmet Fox
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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…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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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…
— Joseph Pilates
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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…
— O. Henry
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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…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On…
— Don DeLillo
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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…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber.…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
— James Russell Lowell
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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…
— Don DeLillo
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A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their…
— Alessandro Nivola
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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,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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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…
— Henry Adams
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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,…
— Peyton Manning
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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
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I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
— Kathy Griffin
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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
— Maxwell Maltz
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In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
— Virgil Thomson
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