Calm Quotes! Sayings on Calmness to Help Your Mind Stay Calm

Calm Quotes and Sayings

  • “Calm can solve all issues.” —Pope Shenouda Iii
  • “Calm’s not life’s crown, though calm is well.” —Matthew Arnold
  • “Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.” —Horace
  • “To be calm when you’ve found something going on.” —Cat Stevens
  • “I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.” —Mariano Rivera
  • “Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.” —Gordon Lightfoot
  • “Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.” —Simon Sinek
  • “Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.” —Paramahansa Yogananda
  • “Slow down. Calm down. Don’t worry. Don’t hurry. Trust the process.” —Alexandra Stoddard
  • “Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.” —Buddha
  • “Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.” — Bruce Lee
  • “It’s calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.” — Fiona Apple
  • “Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.” —George Herbert
  • “When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.” —Mehmet Murat ildan
  • “A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man.” —Robert Murray M’Cheyne
  • “By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of storms.” —Mehmet Murat ildan
  • “By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.” —Nhat Hanh
  • “Be still and calm, don’t fear your past but use it for our future! —Nitesh Nishad
  • “Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man! —Mehmet Murat ildan
  • “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.” —Dalai Lama
  • “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organise your life around it.” —Brian Tracy
  • “Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.” —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • “Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.” —Lenny Kravitz
  • “If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.” —Chademeng Tan
  • “To be calm is the highest achievement of the best of what you have.” —Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  • “Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.” —Amy Ephron
  • “When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.” —Paramahansa Yogananda
  • “He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn’t know what’s going on.” —Leo Buscaglia
  • “A man of calm is like a shady tree. People who need shelter come to it.” —Toba Beta
  • “Learn to calm down the winds of your mind, and you will enjoy great inner peace.” —Remez Sasson
  • “There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.” —Allen Tate
  • “Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog.” —Li Ching-Yuen
  • “When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.” —Dalai Lama
  • “Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.” —Dalai Lama
  • “Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.” —Channing Pollock
  • “Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.” —Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  • “Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.” —Simon Sinek
  • “Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.” —Paramahansa Yogananda
  • “You’re so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.” —Tracy Chevalier
  • “Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.” —Mehmet Murat ildan
  • “Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.” —Wayne W. Dyer
  • “When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.” —LL Cool J
  • “Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence, reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.” —Dalai Lama
  • “It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky; it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil that flew towards the south.” —J.D. Stroube
  • “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.” —Francis de Sales
  • “When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn’t confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn’t mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.” —Dalai Lama

Keep Calm Quotes

  • “Peace begins with a smile.” —Albert Einstein
  • “The storm before the calm.” —Cameron Conaway
  • “Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.” —Euripides
  • “Make peace with mind, it’s your best ally.” —Anonymous
  • “For fast acting relief try slowing down.” —Lily Tomlin
  • “Calm your mind life becomes more crystal clear.” —Anonymous
  • “I never lose either win or learn.” —Nelson Mandela
  • “Whoever & calm and sensible is insane.” —Jalaluddin Rumi
  • “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Peace comes from within, do not seek it without.” —Buddha
  • “A wild person with calm mind can make anything.” —Eric Maisel
  • “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” —Buddha
  • “The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.” —Jules Renard
  • “They sicken of the calm who know the storm.” —Dorothy Parker
  • “It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos.” —Donna karan
  • “You are the sky. Everything else- it’s just the weather.” —Pema Chodron
  • “Who’s crazy people who trust other people, or people who don’t?” —Lenore Skenazy
  • “There is no greater wealth in this world than peace of mind.” —Anonymous
  • “Slow Down, calm down, don’t worry, and don’t hurry. Trust the process.” —Alexandra Stoddard
  • “Believe in yourself, believe on your capabilities and your mind shall never wander.” —Anonymous
  • “When one tunes in into nature’s frequency, life becomes change, change become hope!” —Aniekee Tochukwu
  • “Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm.” —S A Jefferson-Wright
  • “The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos.” —Toba Beta
  • “A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.” —Chris Bradford
  • “The nearer a man comes to a calm mind the closer he is to strength.” —Marcus Aurelius
  • “A man of calm is like a shady tree. People who need shelter come to it.” —Toba Beta
  • “Breathe is the power behind all the things. I breathe in and know that good things will happen.” —Tao Porchon – Lynch
  • “Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.” —Manoj Arora
  • “When you are angry try your best to go to sleep. It keeps you away from speaking, writing, and thinking while you are angry.” —Amit Kalantri
  • “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.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky, it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil that flew towards the south.” —JD
  • “Indeed, she often wondered if she was dead or dying from the inside out and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.” —Gregory Maguire
  • “The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance the support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of the matter to be at peace.” —Gregory Maguire
  • “Peaceful dispute are maintained when men sincerely believe they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.” —Criss Jami
  • “Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your “voyage start and let the storm be your path!” —Mehmet Murat Ildan
  • “I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.” —Anna Funder
  • “Don’t let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter, the shade can turn out to be your protector and also destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain.” —Michael Bassey Johnson
  • “And someday, when the parties don’t dazzle you anymore, and when the alcohol fails to amuse your senses, come to me. We will lie on the grass, stare at the stars and talk about life. May be I will become the moment you rediscover yourself again.” —Meraaqi
  • “Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.” —Roy T. Bennett

Being Calm Quotes

  • “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” —Walter Anderson
  • “Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.”—Dalai Lama
  • “Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.”—Mooji
  • “Remember the entrance to the sanctuary is inside you.”—Rumi
  • “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.”—Buddha
  • “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”—Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Get the inside right. The outside will fall into place.”—Eckhart Tolle
  • “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”—Dalai Lama
  • “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”—Rumi
  • “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” —Charles Spurgeon
  • “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” —Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
  • “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” —Wayne Dyer
  • “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” —Jodi Picoult
  • “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “A person who practices compassion and forgiveness has great inner strength, whereas aggression is usually a sign of weakness.”—Dalai Lama
  • “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.”—David G. Allen
  • “The one who had the power to calm the elements of the earth has power to calm our souls.”—Elder Robert D. Hales
  • “Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.” —Paramahansa Yogananda
  • “The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.” —Alain de Botton
  • “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.” —Brene Brown
  • “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored that anything on which it is poured.”—Mark Twain
  • “Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating –these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything” —Wayne W. Dyer
  • “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” —Thich Nhat Hanh
  • “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” —Arthur Somers Roche
  • “Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we’re frantic, life will be frantic. If we’re peaceful, life will be peaceful.”—Marianne Williamson
  • “Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.”—Eckhart Tolle
  • “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” —Deepak Chopra
  • “The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” —Ernest Hemingway
  • “Just slow down. Slow down your speech. Slow down your breathing. Slow down your walking. Slow down your eating. And let this slower, steadier pace perfume your mind. Just slow down.”—Doko
  • “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”—Deepak Chopra
  • “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” —Anais Nin
  • “People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.” —Eckhart Tolle
  • “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” —Grenville Kleiser
  • “The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.” —Daniel Goleman
  • “P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired…it’s not going to kill you. Ask anyone who’s been through it.” —Danielle LaPorte

Inspirational Quotes On Calmness

  • “In calmness lies true pleasure.” —Victor Hugo
  • “True calmness comes from within.” —Asad Meah
  • “Calmness is the cradle of power.” —Josiah Gilbert Holland
  • “I breathe in calmness, I breathe out stress.” —Anonymous
  • “Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “In calmness and confidence, thy strength manifest.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
  • “It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos.” —Donna Karen
  • “The true strength of a man is in calmness.” —Leo Tolstoy
  • “Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.” —Alphonse Karr
  • “Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.” —Paramahansa Yogananda
  • “Calmness is the lake of mind, thankfulness is the lake of heart.” —Anonymous
  • “Respect your calmness because it is the loudest voice of your strength.” —Anonymous
  • “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.” —Dalai Lama
  • “There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” —Ralph H. Blum
  • “Calamities arrive sometimes only for bringing more calmness in ourselves which is hidden deep within.” —Anonymous
  • “When you walk in peace you will literally see attackers shattering themselves against your inner-calm.” —Bryant McGill
  • “One of the best lessons you can learn is to master how to remain calm.” —Catherine Pulsifer
  • “Make your heart like a lake, with a calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.” —Lao Tzu
  • “Yoga is bringing suppleness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.” —Amit Ray
  • “There will be calmness, tranquillity when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.” —Bruce Lee
  • “Reduce the speed and intensity to reduce stress. A flower blooms slowly, in calmness, and in serenity.” —Debasish Mridha
  • “The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.” —Prasad Mahes
  • “Today start your day with a smile, calmness of mind, coolness of emotions and a heart filled with gratitude.” —Anonymous
  • “Open the door of your calmness, and let the footsteps of silence gently enter the temple of all your activities.” —Paramahansa Yogananda
  • “Calmness is a human superpower. The ability to not overreact or take things personally keeps your mind clear and your heart at peace.” —MarcandAngel
  • “Be patient, life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness.” —Leon Brown
  • “To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, and calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast.” —Pepe Romero
  • “The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.” —Dalai Lama
  • “Your strength is in your calmness, in the clarity of your mind. Strength comes from putting the negative aside without reacting. Win in calmness, in consciousness, in balance.” —Yogi Amrit Desai
  • “When you have inner calmness then you automatically succeed in what you do. The more silent you are from inside, your thoughts and actions become more powerful.” —Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  • “Ships don’t sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what’s happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.” —Anonymous
  • “Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart.” —Geri Larkin
  • “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.” —St. Francis de Sales
  • “A calm mind is able to see things logically and with clarity. Stillness of mind can only be achieved by relieving it of negativity. To relieve the mind of negativity, it becomes necessary to rid it of waste and fill it with nothing but positivity.” —Anonymous
  • “The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.” —James Allen

Calming Quotes for Stress

  • “Calmness is the cradle of power.” —Josiah Gilbert Holland
  • “Give your stress wings and let it fly away.” —Terri Guillemets
  • “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.” —Brian Tracy
  • “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” —William James
  • “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” —Thích Nhất Hạnh
  • “Breath is the power behind all things…. I breathe in and know that good things will happen.” —Tao Porchon-Lynch
  • “Understand this and be free: we are not in our bodies; our bodies are inside us.” —Sean A. Mulvihill
  • “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” —Robert Eliot
  • “When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” —Buddha
  • “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” —Hermann Hesse
  • “Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.” —Tsoknyi Rinpoche
  • “Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.” —Mikhail Lermontov
  • “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.” —James Carroll
  • “Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds.” —Osho
  • “Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.” —Ziggy Marley
  • “The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest.” —Katrina Mayer
  • “The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” —James Allen
  • “In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson