Torii Hunter Quotes

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

I try to be the same guy every day, no matter the situation, no matter the adversity.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

When things are down, we can't hit the panic button, and when things are up, we can't relax. We've just got to stay consistent.

As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by praise or censure, friendship or calumny, nor of being drawn from my purpose by any personal altercation; and the man who cannot do this, is not fit for a public character.

A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

I really should have fell but I stood

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I try to keep an even keel.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.