Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

John Tillotson

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

10.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Ausonius

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Plutarch

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

Abraham Lincoln

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

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

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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