Self Possession Quotes

14 quotes by 14 authors

• A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the… — Sun Tzu
• Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality. — Georges Bataille
• In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate… — William Butler Yeats
• The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
• One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession. — George D. Prentice
• Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse. — Pope Julius II
• Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth... — R.D. Blackmore
• To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact.… — Mary Webb
• Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to… — Gautama Buddha
• Self-possession is the backbone of authority. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
• The sunset glow of self-possession. — Nicolas Chamfort
• Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every… — Sylvia Day
• The greatest possession is self-possession. — Ethel Watts Mumford
• Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly… — Thomas De Quincey

Who Wrote These Self Possession Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 14 Self Possession Quotes as follows:

• 1 Self Possession Quote by Pope Julius II
• 1 Self Possession Quote by R.D. Blackmore
• 1 Self Possession Quote by Mary Webb
• 1 Self Possession Quote by Gautama Buddha
• 1 Self Possession Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
• 1 Self Possession Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
• 1 Self Possession Quote by Sylvia Day
• 1 Self Possession Quote by Ethel Watts Mumford
• 1 Self Possession Quote by Thomas de Quincey
• 1 Self Possession Quote by Sun Tzu
• 1 Self Possession Quote by Georges Bataille
• 1 Self Possession Quote by William Butler Yeats
• 1 Self Possession Quote by Henry Theodore Tuckerman
• 1 Self Possession Quote by George D. Prentice