Motivational Quotes

Silence

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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Best Quotes about Silence

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Dante Alighieri

Those that are silent profess consent.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Ausonius

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

13.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

14.

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

15.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

16.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

17.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

John Tillotson

19.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

22.

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

23.

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

Marceau, Marcel

24.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

25.

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

26.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

27.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

28.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

29.

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

Beaumont, Francis

30.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

31.

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

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

34.

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

35.

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Plutarch

41.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

42.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

44.

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

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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

46.

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

Bible

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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

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Dickson, R A