Norma Shearer Quotes

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Keep a cool head and a warm heart.

I don't let other people get under my skin.

Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.

Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

I have a long fuse.

I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

No, nothing really upsets me.