Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Crapsey, Adelaide

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

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

Plutarch

3.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

4.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

5.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

6.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

7.

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

8.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

9.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

Marceau, Marcel

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

14.

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

Samuel Johnson

15.

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

Muhammad Ali

16.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

John Tillotson

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Those that are silent profess consent.

24.

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

25.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

26.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.

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

28.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Smith, Sydney

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

35.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

39.

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

Blaise Pascal

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

42.

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

43.

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

44.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus