Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

Voltaire

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Ausonius

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smith, Sydney

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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 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

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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

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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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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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Zacharia

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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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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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