Motivational Quotes

Silence

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

- Burns, Robert

Best Quotes about Silence

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Blaise Pascal

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

10.

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

11.

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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Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

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Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Beckett, Samuel

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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

27.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Seneca

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I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Dickson, R A

34.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

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