Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Ausonius

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

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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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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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

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The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Musonnius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Marceau, Marcel

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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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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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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Beaumont, Francis