Motivational Quotes

Silence

Their silence is sufficient praise.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

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

5.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

6.

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

7.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

8.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

9.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

12.

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

13.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

14.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Ausonius

16.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

17.

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

Samuel Johnson

18.

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

Bible

19.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

20.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

24.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

25.

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

26.

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

Dickson, R A

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

30.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

31.

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

O'Malley, Austin

32.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

33.

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

Dante Alighieri

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

35.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

36.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

37.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

38.

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

Plutarch

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

43.

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

Blaise Pascal

44.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

45.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

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

47.

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

Beaumont, Francis

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Arabian

50.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis