Motivational Quotes

Silence

The rest is silence.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Shakespeare, William

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Dante Alighieri

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Musonnius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Smith, Sydney

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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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

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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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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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Muhammad Ali

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti