Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Blaise Pascal

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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

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

Musonnius

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

Marceau, Marcel

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Voltaire

28.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart