Silence – Some Quotes

Harvey Fierstein on Persisting

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