Top 100 Quotes About Quietness
#1. Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones
#2. Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side ... . Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. - RUMI
Tim Farrington
#3. recovery will be tied to routine; risk of relapse tied to noise. God is hard enough to find in the quietness.
Seth Haines
#4. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
Elbert Hubbard
#5. Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.
John Selden
#6. Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind
There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.
Walter Russell
#7. Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today ... the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#8. Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.
Jane Austen
#9. HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.
Alice Walker
#10. When you rest in quietness and
your image of yourself fades, and
your image of the world fades, and
your ideas of others fade, what's left?
A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are
Adyashanti
#11. When some give you advice, say 'thank you'. Then, you must seek the quietness of your spirit for a reflection and direction.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#12. Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield.
Terrence Real
#14. Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching.
Madeleine Brent
#16. The only qualities that befit a woman are gentle obedience, chastity, mercy, and quietness,
Janice P. Nimura
#17. On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless.
Ray Bradbury
#18. The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
Euripides
#19. Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."
Charles Stanley
#20. A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
John Selden
#21. It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking to each other.
John Fowles
#23. There shall never be quietness for the Kingdom of Christ in this world, because it will always be infested and troubled by its enemies. Secondly,
John Calvin
#24. Personal dignity begins by accepting responsibility for our actions, acting humbly, and extending compassion to other people. Personal humility requires choosing living with quietness of the heart over living in the depths of animosity, despair, and discord.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#25. The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.
Maria Faustina Kowalska
#26. The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, and worry becomes an impossibility.
Oswald Chambers
#27. Listen to your intuition and the quiet promptings of your heart.
Bryant McGill
#28. Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.
Rodney Collin
#29. Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
Helen Keller
#30. My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#31. Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence ... block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.
Robert Cheeke
#32. When a man sits down in quietness to listen to the teachings of his spirit, many things will come to him in knowledge and understanding. ~ ~ ~
Roberta Falkner
#33. It is not just saying prayers that gets results, but it is spending time with the Father, learning His wisdom, drawing on His strength, being filled with His quietness, and basking in His love that bring results to our prayers. Praise the Lord!
Germaine Copeland
#34. I was overcome by the simplicity of the brook and abandoned my envy and desire for bravery, and simply prayed: Lord, give me the quietness of the waters of this little brook and like it I will amalgamate myself in thee!
Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco
#36. I thought of Marius. Wild, wonderful, Byronic-fantasy Marius, who had somehow found something he wanted in the everyday quietness of me. Until he hadn't.
Alexis Hall
#37. Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.
Ram Dass
#38. When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.
Bryant McGill
#39. Alone all day, Juniper would remember the animals and places he loved, and hold them in his own heart before the great Heart that made them. He was learning to find quietness inside himself. He was learning to pray.
Margaret McAllister
#40. God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, Be still and know that I am God!
Charles R. Swindoll
#41. Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#42. And, Father, most of all, you taught
Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught
Can thwart, and that it moves where truth
And courage speak, and neither youth
Nor age can hinder its success,
But only fear and quietness.
John Piper
#43. The quietness here had an agreement with dust; neither settled.
Brian Catling
#44. When we are quiet and still we contract and settle.
Bryant McGill
#45. That temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that
Daniel Defoe
#46. Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.
Bryant McGill
#47. They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
Ellis Peters
#48. I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.
Elizabeth I
#49. The quietness of it was weird: real fights happened without a sound track.
Lev Grossman
#50. Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.
Frank Herbert
#52. Quietness rose within Aquila, easing his wild unrest as the salve was cooling the smart of his gashed side. But that was always the way with Brother Ninnias
the quietness, the sense of sanctuary, were things that he carried with him.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#53. The snow has quietness in it; no songs,
no smells, no shouts or traffic.
When I speak
my own voice shocks me.
Anne Sexton
#54. The true lasting quietness ... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine
Mirra Alfassa
#55. By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#56. Don't judge me unfriendly, I'm not arrogant, I'm not shy i just like quietness, cause i can nurture my own world and it's make me back as my original as introverted
Abhiyanda B.
#57. It wasn't until later that I realized Paul's quietness was a result of his confidence. He didn't need to shout to be heard.
Mindy Kaling
#58. If you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.
C.S. Lewis
#60. Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea.
Kathleen Thompson Norris
#61. [There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.
I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.
Jodi Picoult
#62. Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.
Steve Goodier
#63. There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.
Christopher Pike
#64. When everything in your life is silent, enjoy the quietness of your mind. This is the place of peace, a sacred place, and a time for reflection, a time to be guided on the path of your journey ...
James A. Murphy
#65. Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
Nicholas Sparks
#66. This girl who stands so quiet and grave at the mouth of hell. This girl who is all quietness and sanity and innocence. You wondered why I wanted her?
Charlotte Bronte
#67. Truly I prefer by far this life of almost constant trial, if I am only able to roll all my cares upon my Heavenly Father, and thus become increasingly acquainted with Him, to a life of outward peace and quietness, without these constant proofs of His faithfulness,
George Muller
#68. I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country.
Charlotte Casiraghi
#69. I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.
I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.
Lauren Oliver
#70. that love and loathing, joy and distress, quietness and noise, all eventually blur and one is left wondering where one started and the other ended. 6 In the next few months, Anuradha and Vardhmaan Gand-harva, upon the discovery of the dissolution inside their loins, indulged it no end.
Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi
#72. We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.
Harry S. Truman
#73. THINGS HAVE ENDS AND BEGINNINGS Cloud mountains rise over mountain range. Silence and quietness, sky bright as water, sky bright as lake water. Grace is the instinct for knowing when to stop. And where.
Charles Wright
#74. I like the posture, but not the yoga.
I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.
Roman Payne
#75. And after a time, I stopped struggling even internally against the prescribed quietness.
Paula McLain
#76. I do oppose
My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
The very tyranny and rage of his.
William Shakespeare
#79. Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#80. With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
Lao-Tzu
#81. I didn't like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.
Albert Camus
#82. Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.
Li Bai
#83. What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.
Truman Capote
#84. It is in the dark quietness the mind likes to play. The weak and tired body looses it's battle for power while the minds plays it's wild adventures for you to explore.
E.A.G.
#85. Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
Helen Steiner Rice
#86. God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.
Charles R. Swindoll
#87. The worst type of letting go isn't thekicking or the screaming ,because at least then there's enough emotion left to fight.No,the worst type is the silent acceptance.The quietness of the release.That's when the person realizes they no longer give a damn.
Katie McGarry
#88. He sat for a long time and thought to himself that he wished he knew how to pray, yet he knew, untaught, how by abandonment of himself to let the quietness take hold of him.
Elizabeth Goudge
#89. Quiet had a roof and it had walls around it, and you could sit inside it. She had never thought of silence as a place.One of the friends, Tom Williams told her,'the place is in your heart, Louise. Everything else is just clutter.
Lloyd Jones
#90. Peace doesn't deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.
Glenn C. Stewart
#91. Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.
Munia Khan
#92. I love the quietness of the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a very primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology.
Mary Kubica
#93. Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#94. Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home, and, above all, of the quietness and purity of English domestic life.
Isabella Bird
#95. The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.
Bryant McGill
#96. ...my wants are few, and at any rate I had peace and quietness and wasn't always being asked to come along and do something. And I've got such an active mind - always occupied, I assure you!
Kenneth Grahame
#97. Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.
Bryant McGill
#98. With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
Lee Krasner
#99. I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
Henri Matisse
#100. Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
