Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is more musical than any song.

- Christina Rossetti

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

2.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

3.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

4.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

5.

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

Beaumont, Francis

6.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

7.

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

8.

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

William Penn

9.

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

10.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

12.

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

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

14.

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

Abraham Lincoln

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

17.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

18.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

19.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

20.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

23.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

24.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

25.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

26.

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

Young, Brigham

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Musonnius

30.

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

31.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

32.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

34.

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

Ausonius

35.

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

Seneca

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

39.

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

40.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

41.

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

Samuel Johnson

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

46.

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

John Tillotson