Horace - Saint Francis de Sales - L L Cool J - Joan Rivers - Emma Thompson - Thucydides - Dorothy Parker - Oscar Wilde - Vladimir Nabokov - Fernando Alonso -
When the going gets rough, remember to keep calm. Horace, Odes
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Saint Francis de Sales
When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on. L L Cool J
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things. Joan Rivers
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I’ve failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don’t get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. Emma Thompson
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. Thucydides
They sicken of the calm who know the storm. Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems
‘How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.’
‘Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.’
‘I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.’ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for. Vladimir Nabokov
I have always been very calm on the outside. I’m not too stressed now just because I’m in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself. Fernando Alonso