Motivational Quotes

Silence

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

- Meister Eckhart

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Seneca

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

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Ausonius

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

John Tillotson

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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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

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

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Proverb, Arabian

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Engel, Silvan

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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.

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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

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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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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 never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

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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