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

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Brigham

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Syrus, Publilius

12.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

15.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

William Shakespeare

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

19.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

William Penn

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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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

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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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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

33.

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

34.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

35.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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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

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Gabirol, Ibn

43.

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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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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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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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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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