Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

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

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

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

Marceau, Marcel

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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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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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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 the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Dickson, R A

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

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

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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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

36.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare