Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

10.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

Those that are silent profess consent.

12.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

15.

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

Dickson, R A

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

William Penn

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

22.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

30.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

39.

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

John Tillotson

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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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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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.

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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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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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John