Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Silence

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

O'Malley, Austin

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

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

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Voltaire

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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.

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

Dickson, R A

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dante Alighieri

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I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Blaise Pascal

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Muhammad Ali

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ausonius

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

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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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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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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Abraham Lincoln

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