Quotes About Poise

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." MICHAEL CAINE

A true lady could weather tragedy and heartache and keep her pride and dignity.

When you walk into a room, act as if you own the whole house, not just that room. Paste on a smile, even if it's fake, and never tug at your skirt or mess with your necklace

I had to comport myself with something approaching dignity, at twenty.

Be brave, she told herself. Be brave, like a lady in a song.

Humans are frail in our eyes today, and we secretly wonder whether those with poise and stiff upper lips are merely ticking time bombs. The freak-out allows us to feel we're not alone in our inner panic.

Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.' " Looking at Roarke now, Morris managed a small smile. "Well said.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.

We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.

It is executive presence—and no man or woman attains a top job, lands an extraordinary deal, or develops a significant following without this heady combination of confidence, poise, and authenticity that convinces the rest of us we're in the presence of someone who's the real deal. It's an amalgam of qualities that telegraphs that you are in charge or deserve to be.

It is executive presence—and no man or woman attains a top job, lands an extraordinary deal, or develops a significant following without this heady combination of confidence, poise, and authenticity that convinces the rest of us we're in the presence of someone who's the real deal.

What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.

Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear.

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, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.

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 years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

She carried herself as queens are reputed to bear themselves, and probably do not.

Her long hands were a little uplifted and clasped tightly together.

Joe] was the sort of man who stayed cool under the most embarrassing situations and having Shylah RIP him a new one in front of an audience had to be right up there.

Out of every kind of nervousness I didn't move.

He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned: he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there.