Motivational Quotes

Silence

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

2.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

3.

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

Abraham Lincoln

4.

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Dickson, R A

5.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

6.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

7.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

8.

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

Samuel Johnson

9.

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

10.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

11.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

12.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

13.

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

14.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

John Tillotson

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

Beckett, Samuel

20.

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

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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

26.

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

27.

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

28.

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

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

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

William Penn

31.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Musonnius

34.

Those that are silent profess consent.

35.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

36.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

37.

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

38.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

39.

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

Abraham Lincoln

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.