Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Young, Brigham

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Dante Alighieri

10.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

11.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

12.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

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

15.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Samuel Johnson

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Plutarch

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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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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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

28.

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

Dickson, R A

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

Engel, Silvan

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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

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.