Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

2.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

3.

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

Proverb, Arabian

4.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

5.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

6.

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

7.

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

O'Malley, Austin

8.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

9.

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

10.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

11.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

12.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

13.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Ausonius

21.

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

Bible

22.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

23.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

24.

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

25.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

26.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

27.

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.

28.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

29.

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

30.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

31.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

32.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

35.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Dickson, R A

38.

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

Seneca

39.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

40.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

41.

Those that are silent profess consent.

42.

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

Blaise Pascal

43.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

44.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Samuel Johnson

46.

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

William Penn

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Abraham Lincoln

50.

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

Carlyle, Thomas