Motivational Quotes

Silence

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Musonnius

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Gabirol, Ibn

15.

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

Dickson, R A

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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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Voltaire

21.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

27.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Marceau, Marcel

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Ausonius

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Coolidge, Calvin

44.

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

Zacharia

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper