Quiet Quotes

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference.

To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

From all kinds of flowers, Seek teachings everywhere, Like a deer that finds A quiet place to graze, Seek Seclusion to digest All you have gathered. . .

The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

Don't judge me because I'm quiet. No one plans a murder out loud.

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.

Motion is tranquility.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

Quiet IS the new loud.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.

Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.