Motivational Quotes

Silence

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

- Brownlow, Leroy

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Musonnius

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

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Ausonius

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

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

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

John Tillotson

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

Smith, Sydney

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Plutarch

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

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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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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 fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

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I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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 ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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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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