Motivational Quotes

Silence

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

- Xenocrates of Chalcedon

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Dickson, R A

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

Ausonius

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

12.

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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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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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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If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Seneca

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

33.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

35.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

37.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

William Penn

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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 the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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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

46.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dante Alighieri