Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Silence

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

O'Malley, Austin

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

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

Smith, Sydney

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Shakespeare, William

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

10.

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

Dickson, R A

11.

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

Zacharia

12.

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

Muhammad Ali

13.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

14.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

15.

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

Bagehot, Walter

16.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

17.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

18.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

19.

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

20.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

21.

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

Dante Alighieri

22.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

31.

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

32.

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

Samuel Johnson

33.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

34.

Those that are silent profess consent.

35.

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

36.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

37.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

38.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

39.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

40.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

42.

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

43.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

45.

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

Beaumont, Francis

46.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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