Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Silence

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Dickson, R A

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

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

Ausonius

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

Young, Brigham

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Samuel Johnson

10.

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

11.

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

Musonnius

12.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

13.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

15.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

Bible

17.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

18.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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

William Penn

20.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

24.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

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

27.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

28.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

29.

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

Beckett, Samuel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

34.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

35.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

36.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

37.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Beaumont, Francis

42.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

43.

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

John Tillotson

44.

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