Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proverb, Arabian

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

10.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

13.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

14.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

15.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

16.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

18.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

20.

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

21.

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

Marceau, Marcel

22.

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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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

24.

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

O'Malley, Austin

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

27.

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

28.

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

Blaise Pascal

29.

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

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

Ausonius

32.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

33.

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

Zacharia

34.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

35.

Those that are silent profess consent.

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Muhammad Ali

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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

39.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

40.

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

Dickson, R A

41.

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