Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Silence

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Smith, Sydney

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

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

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

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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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

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

Dickson, R A

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

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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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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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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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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Musonnius

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Seneca

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Beaumont, Francis

34.

When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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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

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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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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Thoreau, Henry David