Browsing Topic Best Quiet Quotes

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

When you are wrong, admit it. When you are right, be quiet.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.

Simply wait, be quiet, still. The world will freely offer itself to you.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.

Real tenderness can’t be confused. It’s quiet and can’t be heard.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought ‘I am’. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.

To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home,To my first Love, my Mother, on whose kneeI learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.

Silence is safer than speech.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.