Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

3.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

4.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

Beckett, Samuel

9.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

10.

Those that are silent profess consent.

11.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

12.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

13.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

14.

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

15.

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

Engel, Silvan

16.

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

Abraham Lincoln

17.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

18.

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

19.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

20.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

21.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

22.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

24.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

27.

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

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

29.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

30.

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

Marceau, Marcel

31.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Arabian

35.

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

36.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

37.

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

Dickson, R A

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Dante Alighieri

41.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

42.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

43.

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

Blaise Pascal

44.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Hubbard, Kin

49.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

50.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare