Motivational Quotes

Silence

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

2.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

3.

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

Smith, Sydney

4.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

5.

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

Syrus, Publilius

6.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

7.

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

Musonnius

8.

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

Dickson, R A

9.

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

Ausonius

10.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

11.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

12.

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

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

15.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

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

17.

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

John Tillotson

18.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

19.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

22.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

23.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

24.

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

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

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

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Abraham Lincoln

31.

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

Blaise Pascal

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.