Motivational Quotes

Silence

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

- Bagehot, Walter

Best Quotes about Silence

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

10.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

12.

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

13.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

16.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

17.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

18.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

20.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

21.

When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

Boehme, Jacob

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There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

24.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

25.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

27.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

28.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

29.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Richards, Edward Hersey

30.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

31.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

32.

Those that are silent profess consent.

33.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

34.

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Dickson, R A

35.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

36.

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Delint, Charles

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

39.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

41.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

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What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Katz, Jonathan

43.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

44.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

46.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

49.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

50.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb