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.
Helen Keller

Success, Experience, Character

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

Life, Mind, Creative

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

Past, High, Act

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.
Ann Landers

Love, Friendship, Good

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank

Nature, God, Best

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Christmas, Home, Happy

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau

Find, Enough, Ready

Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Jim Morrison

Film, Vampires, Spectators

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Lives, Lead

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby

Peace, Justice, Parents

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

Men, Wise, Doubt

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism, Human, Race

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert Camus

Silence, Same, Escape

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill Cosby

Truth, Justice, Parents

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Alan Watts

Everything, Understand, Tell

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka

Wait, Choice, Leave

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

Men, Alone, Able

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Cannot, Minds, Fortune

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Character, Human

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Strength, Courage, Mind

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
Iain Duncan Smith

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
Michelle Obama

Life, Women, Strength

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Best, Mind, Body

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Made, Perfect, Solitude

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.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Great, Happy

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Saint Augustine

Heart, Until, Thou

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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth

Life, Power, Deep

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Mike Tyson

Good, Real, Everything

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion, Stuff, Common

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie

Wise, Away, Whole

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