Motivational Quotes

Silence

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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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

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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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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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Those that are silent profess consent.

15.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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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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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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

22.

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

Ausonius

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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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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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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Samuel Johnson

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zacharia

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beaumont, Francis

42.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Beckett, Samuel

44.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

45.

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

John Tillotson

47.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Blaise Pascal