Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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

Bible

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

10.

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

Engel, Silvan

11.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

14.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

15.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

16.

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

Abraham Lincoln

17.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

18.

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

19.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

20.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

21.

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

William Penn

22.

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

Plutarch

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

Ausonius

25.

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

Bagehot, Walter

26.

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

Seneca

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

29.

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

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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.

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

34.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

35.

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

Smith, Sydney

36.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

37.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

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

Samuel Johnson

40.

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

Syrus, Publilius

41.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

42.

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

Zacharia

43.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

46.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

47.

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

48.

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

Hubbard, Kin

49.

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

50.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston