Quiet Success Quotes

[Gigi Does It show] flew so drastically under the radar. I kind of hold it in my back pocket as this thing that I got the opportunity to do that no one really knows I did and that I'm really proud of.

Sometimes, the players who are not spoken about a lot, they grow and get better - with silence.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

Nobody notices when things go right.

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.

I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.

I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously successful businesses of very quiet, very calculated, calm executors who are confident. You can't be successful without being confident. They believe in themselves. They have their own version of assertiveness ... I think confidence matters and I think other things matter, like I would tell you empathy is probably why I'm more successful than confidence. I'm empathic to the customer, to my business partners, to my employees.

There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.