Self Possession Quotes (8 quotes)

“A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit. In the heat of battle he remains cool; in the midst of catastrophes he keeps level his mind. Earthquakes do not shake him, he laughs at storms. We admire him as truly great, who, in the menacing presence of danger or death, retains his self-possession; who, for instance, can compose a poem under impending peril or hum a strain in the face of death. Such indulgence betraying no tremor in the writing or in the voice, is taken as an infallible index of a large nature—of what we call a capacious mind (Yoyū), which, far from being pressed or crowded, has always room for something more.”
― Inazo Nitobe, Bushido, The Soul Of Japan

tags: bravery, bushido, equanimity, self-possession, serenity, yoyu

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“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.”
― C.G. Jung, Dreams

tags: maturity, responsibility, self-possession, self-reflection

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“There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.”
― Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch

tags: character, personhood, self-possession

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“The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

tags: good-manners, self-possession

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“Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.”
― Ruth Downie, Medicus

tags: freedom, self-possession, self-worth, strength-of-a-woman, strength-through-adversity

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“Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Self-possession, that's what it was. This was someone who knew her own mind, her own worth.
--Part One : The Satchel> Chapter Three”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

tags: self-possession

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