Calm Under Pressure Quotes

“I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.”
― Sandra Brown, Lethal

“Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”
― Jacob Braude

“Losing your head in a crisis is a good way to become the crisis.”
― C.J. Redwine, Defiance

“Trying to seem calm and struggling to smile
a life, silently
keeps living me.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“I feel something change in me... I feel a flat calm, a detachment, the way I get when something is too much and yet l must function and in fact function at the highest level. I know what I'm in for, only a fool wouldn't know that...”
― Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist

“It is refreshing, and salutary, to study the poise and quietness of Christ. His task and responsibility might well have driven a man out of his mind. But He was never in a hurry, never impressed by numbers, never a slave of the clock.”
― J. B. Phillips

“Calm is the best revenge”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“You can't win an argument with an argument.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows: To the World Around You

“Peace doesn’t deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.”
― Glenn C. Stewart

“Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Keep your calmness at all times.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Don’t you dare say these times are hollow
Just because there are storms raging by.
Just lay low on your pillow,
Close your eyes and say goodbye

To the world that you lived in today.
Let your dreams carry you away;
You lived a nightmare all through the day,
It is time to dream, so don’t delay.

You searched for a reason to live,
Yes darling, you searched everywhere.
You had to push, you had to strive,
It is time now to get some air.

You searched in all that is outside,
It is time now to look inside,
Cause that is where you’ll find
A reason worth keeping in your mind.

These dreams are not an escape, darling,
You need time to see past the lies that blind you.
It is time for you to start running
To those things that are true.

So, don’t you dare say these nights are hollow,
Just because there are storms raging by.
Just lay low on your pillow
And lose yourself in this lullaby.”
― Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core

“Panicking never helps.”
― Kimberly Davis Basso, I'm A Little Brain Dead

“You don’t need to be too anxious about anything; you only need to get understanding!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Forget about showering with my fellow students in Tribeca Alternative’s prison-style showers—one nozzle for four to six girls at a time—in the locker room.
It was impossible to work up a sweat during what passed for physical education class at TAHS, so there was no need to shower, anyway.
Well, impossible for me, considering that, in the past, whenever a volleyball or whatever came near me,
I’d always make sure to step calmly away to avoid it.
See? No sweat. No need for a shower. Problem solved.”
― Meg Cabot, Being Nikki

“I'm glad to get home,
but I have no worry.
If we are in a hurry
we die in the outcome.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“Don't let emotions get the best of you. Knee jerk actions cause you to slip up and make the wrong move. People shouldn't always know what you're thinking. Observe, plan and prepare for the right moment to act. The element of surprise is one of life's biggest advantages. The best card you have is the one you have yet to play.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Claire's face looking pretty and serene, as if she were gifted with a madness that left her ignorant of worry.”
― R.J. Lawrence, The Xactilias Project

“She'd never been anything other than absolutely professional with him. Always in a good mood, the calm in the center of every storm. And there had been many. He could depend on her to be consistently cool, competent, and focused. Aside from her rather amazing talent, the way she handled the day-to-day chaos of the kitchen with such smooth aplomb was the thing he'd admired most about her. He'd been convinced that bombs could be going off, and she'd been steadily working away with that quiet smile of hers, truly content, as if she existed inside her own personal sunbeam.
To him, she'd been the perennial Snow White, kind to one and all, always making life easier for those around her.”
― Donna Kauffman, Sugar Rush

“I don't suppose you care to enlighten me as to who you are?"
"Do you really care?"
He smiled then. "No."
"I thought not. Miss Brown will do."
"On the contrary- 'Miss Brown' will not do at all. I refuse to have someone living under my protection with such a tedious name. 'Emma' will suffice. You seem rather like an Emma, despite your exotic appearance. There's something definitely well ordered about the name Emma. Calm and reasonable, warmhearted and generous."
"You think I'm calm and reasonable?" She was astounded. While that sounded a bit more flattering than she tended to view herself, he'd painted a fairly accurate picture of the real Emma. Well ordered, sensible, kind, and serene, despite the storms that surrounded her. But how could he possibly know that?”
― Anne Stuart, To Love a Dark Lord