Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Silence

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Musonnius

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.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

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

12.

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

Syrus, Publilius

13.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

14.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

15.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

16.

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

Samuel Johnson

17.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

18.

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

19.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

20.

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

21.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

24.

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

25.

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

Blaise Pascal

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

30.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

31.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

32.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

33.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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

37.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

40.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

42.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

43.

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

Dante Alighieri

44.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

45.

Their silence is sufficient praise.