Body-language-quotes Quote by Susan C. Young

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

— John Wooden

“When we aim high, pressure and stress obligingly come along for the ride. Stuff is going to happen that catches us off guard, threatens…

— Ryan Holiday

“Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and…

— James Thurber

“I am not pompus; I am a as wonderful as I think I am.”

— Kimberly T. Matthews

“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

— Agesilaus II

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“A willingness to be pleased requires modesty and even innocence--easy to deride as mawkish and sentimental.”

— Gretchen Rubin

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the…

— John Ruskin

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

— O. Henry

“Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have…

— Ronald Reagan