Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

11.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

12.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

14.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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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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

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

19.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

20.

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

Smith, Sydney

21.

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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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Young, Brigham

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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