Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- John Tillotson

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

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

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

Beckett, Samuel

10.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

11.

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

12.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

13.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

16.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

17.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

18.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

19.

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

20.

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

Beaumont, Francis

21.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

22.

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

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Abraham Lincoln

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Seneca

30.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

31.

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

32.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Bagehot, Walter

34.

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

Zacharia

35.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

36.

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

37.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

38.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

39.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

Those that are silent profess consent.

41.

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

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

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

Syrus, Publilius

45.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

46.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

47.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

48.

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

49.

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

Marceau, Marcel

50.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

Arp, Jean