Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Young, Brigham

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Zacharia

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

11.

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

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Bible

14.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

15.

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

16.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

17.

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

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

Beaumont, Francis

19.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

20.

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

21.

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

Blaise Pascal

22.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.

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

24.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

25.

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

Plutarch

26.

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

O'Malley, Austin

27.

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

Abraham Lincoln

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Arabian

31.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

32.

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

John Tillotson

33.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

34.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

35.

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

36.

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

37.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

38.

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

39.

Those that are silent profess consent.

40.

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

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

42.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

Bagehot, Walter

44.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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