Quotes About Not Being Flashy

#1. You're kind and patient and honorable, and yes, maybe those aren't flashy, magical, extraordinary traits. Maybe being all those things does make you a bit ordinary, but the ordinary things are the important things.

H.L. Burke

#2. I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.

Stephen Colbert

#3. But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

Julian Bond

#4. All I can tell you is that I know the enemy, allies, and troops hear what I say.

George W. Bush

#5. The question we face is whether this candidate can succeed. The question we seem to answer is whether she interviews well. Let's not substitute.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Dorothy Day

#7. You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in his eyrie at night!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

Chad Smith

#9. It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

Mick Jagger

#10. Fear is the will's little baby. It arises with the possibility you will lose what you desire.

Shai Tubali

#11. That's your business, isn't it, cousin? To make nothing your business. Even your own sons going to war. How I pleaded with you. But you buried your nose in those cursed books and let our sons go like they were a pair of haramis.

Khaled Hosseini

#12. I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.

Joan Caulfield

#13. James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.

Mayer Hawthorne

#14. My music is more than me writing a flashy soul song. They're heartfelt songs about my family and true stories. I have also songs that aren't personal, but just painting a picture. I don't like being put under labels, but my music is going to continue to stay classic and timeless forever.

Leon Bridges

#15. What you think becomes what you speak and what you speak will manifest in your life...be careful with your words

Marcee Bonds