Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Silence

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

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

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

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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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Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

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

Voltaire

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

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

Ausonius

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

31.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

32.

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

Dickson, R A

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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 silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

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If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Muhammad Ali

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These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

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The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

John Tillotson