Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Dickson, R A

Best Quotes about Silence

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

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

Abraham Lincoln

12.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

13.

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

Young, Brigham

14.

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

William Penn

15.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

16.

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

Bagehot, Walter

17.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

18.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

19.

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

Marceau, Marcel

20.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

21.

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

22.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

23.

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

24.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

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

26.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

27.

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.

28.

Those that are silent profess consent.

29.

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

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

34.

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

Blaise Pascal

35.

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

Musonnius

36.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

37.

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

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

41.

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

42.

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

Beaumont, Francis

43.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

50.

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