Quotes About Quiet Success

#1. Not only has volume been ratcheted up but expectations have, too. Quiet success
painting a picture, writing a poem, writing an algorithm
is all well and good, but if you haven't become famous doing it, then did it really matter?

Sophia Dembling

#2. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Edward Tufte

#3. I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

Greg Abbott

#4. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Anonymous

#5. I'm not an expert in stillness, but I have been trying to practice more peace in my life. As someone who wants it all, and tries to go after it, I once thought including quiet time in my routine was a good idea. Now I find it's more than that - it's critical to my success.

Michelle McCullough

#6. Quiet the chattering mind promotes directed action. We can't know which interactions will deepen into richer relationships, yet we can keep the faith that our mutuality mindset affirms them. Mutuality most demonstrates our humanity and, in the end, that may be what most matters in our lives.

Kare Anderson

#7. And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball ...

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#8. It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. ( ... ) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.

David Millar

#9. That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. CHARACTER can not be developed in case and quiet,only through trials and sufferings can the soul be strengthened,inspired and success achieved.

Karina Halle

#11. Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

Judy LaMarsh

#12. Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

Eliphas Levi

#13. A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.

John Townsend Trowbridge

#14. I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

Jean Webster

#15. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. HELEN KELLER

Dave Ramsey

#16. And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don't quiet think where Cleggy gets this from, I don't know. Prehaps he is cosidering an alternative career, as a stand up comedian, once he's out of politics.

Nigel Farage

#17. Tell few about your dreams and show the rest in the way you make a life with it.

Nikki Rowe

#18. Take some time to be silent and repeat the sound of God as an inner mantra. Meditation allows you to make conscious contact with your Source and achieve success in every area. If a problem arises, then go within, get very quiet about it and find the answers inside of you

Wayne Dyer

#19. I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

Luci Shaw

#20. There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality.

Nikki Rowe

#21. True strength is shown by the person who remains humble, quiet, & positive throughout all adversity and maintains their path towards success.

Behdad Sami

#22. I have learned that part of the formula for success is to keep quiet about your objective until you get it. Just as the universe is filled with positive energy waiting to join your own, there is also destructive energy emanating from people who do not like you.

Sheilah Graham Westbrook

#23. You don't have to prove confidence; when you have it, it'll show.
Real confidence is quiet, tactful, civil, and humble.

Rosalinda Oropeza Randall

#24. I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.

Paul Lester Wiener

#25. There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love ... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#26. The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

John Gilmore

#27. Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

Lisa Bonet

#28. All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

Ian McKellen