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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

5.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

6.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

7.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

8.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

9.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

10.

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

11.

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

Muhammad Ali

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

14.

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

15.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

16.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

17.

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

Young, Brigham

18.

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

Ausonius

19.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

20.

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

Samuel Johnson

21.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

22.

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

23.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

24.

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

25.

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

26.

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

Smith, Sydney

27.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

28.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

29.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

32.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

33.

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

34.

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

Dickson, R A

35.

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

36.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

37.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

38.

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

Musonnius

39.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

40.

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

41.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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

44.

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