Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

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

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Ausonius

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

15.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

16.

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Plutarch

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

Seneca

20.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

30.

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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Smith, Sydney

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

34.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

35.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

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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

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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

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

Dickson, R A

50.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert