Quotes About Composure

For me, playing the game of football, obviously there's a lot of emotions going on. But I always like to keep calm and just be myself.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

I am not the sort of character to get carried away.

Don't get carried away when things go well, don't get carried away when they go badly.

I can't control everything that's said, but I've been around. Nothing will surprise me.

I've been out now for so many years that I am not surprised at what someone may occasionally say. It really doesn't faze me.

When you're around for as long as I have, nothing surprises you any more.

She looked as if she were about to burst into tears, but she was wonderful at catching the ball of her own mood in mid-air.

Balance is a myth

He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.

Okay, I'll ask. How come you're being sued? And how come you're so calm about it?" "I might as well be calm," she said. "Getting all worked up won't do any good.

The artificial darkness with its lingering warmth crept about me like a muffler. I gradually began to recover my composure, like a mole that has gone to ground.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

The wise man never loses his temper.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains

Great is the advantage of patience.

To toughen up, is to calm down.

The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not annoyed by the uncouth manner of this youth.