Motivational Quotes

Silence

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

4.

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

Ausonius

5.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

6.

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

7.

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

Beaumont, Francis

8.

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

Hubbard, Kin

9.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

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

Abraham Lincoln

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

John Tillotson

13.

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

14.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

15.

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

Marceau, Marcel

16.

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.

17.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

18.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

19.

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

Bible

20.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

24.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

25.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

26.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

27.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

28.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

29.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

34.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

35.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

36.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

37.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

38.

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

Young, Brigham

39.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

41.

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

Musonnius

42.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

43.

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

44.

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

Seneca

45.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Syrus, Publilius

47.

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

Samuel Johnson

48.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

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