Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Muhammad Ali

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

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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.

15.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

16.

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

Marceau, Marcel

17.

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

18.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

19.

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

Smith, Sydney

20.

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

21.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

22.

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

23.

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

Ausonius

24.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

25.

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

26.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

28.

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

Samuel Johnson

29.

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

Engel, Silvan

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.

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

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

Musonnius

34.

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

35.

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

36.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

37.

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

Abraham Lincoln

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

41.

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

42.

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

Young, Brigham

43.

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

44.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

45.

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

46.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

47.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

48.

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

Beaumont, Francis

49.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.