Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Wisdom | Courage | Justice | Temperance
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
~ Harvey Fierstein
“Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.”
~ Cato
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
~ Confucius
“A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.”
~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto / Hagakure
Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Silence is sometimes the best answer.
~ Dalai Lama
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
~ Buddha
“Talkers are no good doers.”
~ William Shakespeare
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
~ Zora Neale Hurston
“I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.”
~ Cato the Younger
“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
~ Epictetus
“It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence”
~ Seneca
“If A is success in life, then
A = x + y + z.
Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
~ Albert Einstein