Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

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

William Penn

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

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

Marceau, Marcel

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Bagehot, Walter

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Blaise Pascal

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Engel, Silvan

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Dante Alighieri

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Seneca

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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

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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 the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Shakespeare, William

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

34.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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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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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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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Muhammad Ali

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence