Motivational Quotes

Silence

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Beaumont, Francis

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

John Tillotson

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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

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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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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Plutarch

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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 ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Seneca

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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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