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Quotes About Calmness

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.
~ William Osler
In the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue.
~ William Osler
Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
~ William Saroyan
Truth hath a quiet breast.
~ William Shakespeare
But though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. JOHN WESLEY
~ William Thrasher
In the calmness of the morning before the mind is heated and weary by the turmoil of the day, you have a season of unusual importance for communing with God and with yourself.
~ William Wilberforce
Resigned to vacant musing, Unreproved neglect of all things And deliberate holiday.
~ William Wordsworth
Let tomorrow take care of itself.
~ Wu Ningkun
A quiet-hearted person awakes with a smile on his lips and an eagerness in his heart for the day ahead.
~ Wu Wei
Turmoil and terror aren't compatible with sangfroid. When horror strikes, the heart is always its first target.
~ Yasmina Khadra
People at the Neutral level are easy to get along with and safe to associate with because they are not interested in conflict, competition, or guilt.
~ David R. Hawkins
You stay calm and make it happen.
~ David Zweig
Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.
~ Deb Caletti
The wise warrior avoids the battle.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Without inner peace we have nothing.
~ Allen Weinsten
Even enjoying a cup of tea, with all your senses involved in it is also pure meditation.
~ Err:509
Through meditation we can channel outer energy to create inner calmness and peace.
~ Debasish Mridha
Never let anyone steal your passion and calmness without your permission.
~ Debasish Mridha
You will not be able to find outer calmness if your heart is carrying a storm.
~ Debasish Mridha
The foremost quality of a commander is to keep a cool head, to receive accurate impressions of what is happening, and never fret or be amazed or intoxicated by good news or bad. The
~ Jay Luvaas
leave yourself open to accept things rather than anxiously searching for them. You
~ Jay Maisel
Beware of the anger of a patient man.
~ Jeanette Keith
If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?
~ Eknath Easwaran
Patience is not only a virtue; it is a form of grace
~ Elizabeth Berg