Quotes and Sayings about Tranquility
"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Action, Will)
"The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested."
- Mike Honda
(Related: Constitution, Tension, Terrorism, Tragedy, Tranquility)
"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
- Clive James
(Related: Fire, Man, Moments, Tranquility)
"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Happiness, Wealth, Occupation, Tranquility)
"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame."
- Thomas Kempis
(Related: Heart, Blame, Praise, Tranquility)
"Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility."
- Jack Levine
(Related: Now, Painting, Tranquility)
"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Fame, Tranquility)
"Motion is tranquility."
- Stirling Moss
(Related: Tranquility)
"Movement is tranquility."
- Stirling Moss
(Related: Tranquility)
"We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility."
- Kwame Nkrumah
(Related: Danger, Self, Tranquility)
"You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors."
- Arundhati Roy
(Related: Work, Beginning, Risk, Tranquility)
"The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Progress, Spiritual, Tranquility)
"I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Heart, Tranquility)
"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
- James Thurber
(Related: Humor, Chaos, Tranquility)
"With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature."
- Robert Toombs
(Related: Nature, Content, Human nature, Security, Tranquility)
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
- Alfred North Whitehead
(Related: Achievement, Mankind, Tranquility)
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
- William Wordsworth
(Related: Poetry, Emotion, Tranquility)