A Quote by Arthur Machen

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

Arthur Machen

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Decency Pride Silence Silence Is Weakness

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Arthur Machen
Welsh - Author
March 3, 1863 - December 15, 1947

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

Edmond Jabes

No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.

Charles Stanley

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Jane Austen

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Dalai Lama

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

George Bernard Shaw

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

William Faulkner

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

James Russell Lowell

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Alfred de Vigny

If I'm walking down the street, and if a person abuses me, the dignified thing to do is to keep walking, but if that person starts throwing stones into my home and affects the well-being of me and my family, then that silence is no longer strength; that silence becomes weakness.

Hrithik Roshan

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

Charles de Gaulle

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt.

Beryl Markham

Weakness leaves, pride comes in. Confidence grows. Successful life.

Greg Plitt

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Fulton J. Sheen

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

Dag Hammarskjold

Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

Edgar Lee Masters

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