(498 quotes found)
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”
Michael Caine
“Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.”
Comte de Mirabeau
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”
Christina G. Rossetti
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.”
Cyril Connolly
“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”
Jules Renard
“They sicken of the calm, who know the storm”
Dorothy Parker
“Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed”
Channing Pollock
“They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.”
