Poise Quotes

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

Good, Knowledge, Alone

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
Maxwell Maltz

Forward, Moving, Sense

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber

Husband, Situation, Might

I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
Kathy Griffin

Fun, Class, Limits

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson

Learn, Social, Crush

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
Earl Wilson

Ability, Ill, Ease

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
Don DeLillo

Truth, Integrity, Down

The key to winning is poise under stress.
Paul Brown

Stress, Winning, Key

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.
Alessandro Nivola

Age, Time, Feeling

And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.
Lawrence Hargrave

Great, May, Down

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
Al Spalding

Self, Baseball, Growing

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