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Quotes about Quiet


The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Michael Konda

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.

S. W. Duffield

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.

Richard Lovelace

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Charles Fisher

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Queen Victoria

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Walter Bagehot

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

James Baker

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Adlai Stevenson

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

John Bunyan

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan L. Taylor

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

Bill Cosby

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

English Proverb

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

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness means quiet nerves.

W. C. Fields

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.

Kin Hubbard

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Zen Proverb

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Doug Larson

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Latin Proverb

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Queen Victoria

Quiet is what home would be without children.

Queen Anonymous

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Hamilton Mabie

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Walter Bagehot

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