Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Hubbard, Kin

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Bible

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

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

Young, Brigham

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Plutarch

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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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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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Muhammad Ali

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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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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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

Voltaire

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Dickson, R A

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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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