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.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.

Silence is the mother of truth.

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.

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

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

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

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

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

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.

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

By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

Your soul – that inner quiet space – is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.

Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive action. Wisdom is the insight and intuition contained in the proverbial still, small voice that only a quiet mind can hear and know.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic.

There are moments when it’s too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That’s when you know there’s something lacking in your life. You just know.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

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

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

I’m very low-key. I don’t really blend in, so it’s difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it’s a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

God’s voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she’d be like, ‘Stop singing. Be quiet, you’re talking just to hear yourself speak.’ It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I’m well suited to interviews. You know, there’s no other forum where you’re literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.

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