Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

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

Dante Alighieri

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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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

14.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

15.

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

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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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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Zacharia

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

John Tillotson

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

O'Malley, Austin

27.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Those that are silent profess consent.

29.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

Musonnius

31.

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

33.

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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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

William Penn

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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.

41.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

43.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

44.

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

Blaise Pascal

45.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Dickson, R A

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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