Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Dickson, R A

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Samuel Johnson

2.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

3.

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

Dante Alighieri

4.

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

5.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

6.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

7.

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

Seneca

8.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

10.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

12.

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

13.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

16.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

17.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

18.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

19.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Abraham Lincoln

30.

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

31.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

32.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.