Motivational Quotes

Silence

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Best Quotes about Silence

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

11.

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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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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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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

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

Musonnius

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

21.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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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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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

25.

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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.

28.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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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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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

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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

Muhammad Ali

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

44.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

Smith, Sydney

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.