Quotes About Poise

I don't really experience much embarrassment.

It's essential to have equilibrium in your life.

She does not get upset by anything. She takes things very calmly and she has been that way her whole life.

He moved through life with measured steps, never hurried, though always surrounded by demands and crowds.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

A chest out to here and legs that go all the way down to the floor.

fear keeps a man even in his words and judgment of things. It may be compared to the ballast of the ship, and to the poise of the balance of the scales; it keeps all even, and also makes us steer our course right with respect to the things that pertain to God and man.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

Leisure with dignity.

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

Granddad taught me a long time ago, act like you've been there before.

You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.

I think there is something lovely when a woman looks well.

Legwarmers lend a note of paramilitary poise, a hint of archaic warriorhood.

She was a masterpiece of composure; nothing ever ruffled her or made her upset, and though she was not beautiful her calmness had the magnetic pull of beauty- a stillness so powerful that the molecules realigned themselves around her when she came into a room. Like a fashion drawing come to life, she turned heads wherever she went, gliding along obliviously without appearing to notice the turbulence she created in her wake.

You had to hand it to her: she was as cool as dammit.

He landed, and the weapons were already lifted, held with a deadly poise that was like no girl, nor no man either. The greatest warrior of his generation.

Tall and svelte, he oozed sophistication and was "very pleasant in the sight of gentlewomen.

positioning her chin carefully with her hands and holding them there

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.