Calm Quotes

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Vittorio Alfieri
- Men
- Passion
- Accomplish
Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.

Cory Lidle
- Thinking
- Calm

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

Annabelle Selldorf
- Beautiful
- Space
- Quality
Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.

Dalai Lama
- People
- Happy
- Religious
If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care so long as they sang without dissonance.

Ralph Ellison
- Long
- Song
- Calm
In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

William Stanley Jevons
- Long
- Running
- Philosophy
The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there,And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air.

James Gates Percival
- Water
- Air
- Waves
I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

Emilia Clarke
- Long
- Green
- Calm