If you are seeking some of the most insightful quotes about quiet people, you’ve come to the right place! 😌
Below, you will find a wide range of inspiring, revealing, deep, and empathetic quotes about mindful and quiet people.
Side note: If I have missed must-have quotes or proverbs, please share them in the comments section as I will be sure to include them in future updates! 😃
63+ Insightful Quotes About Quiet People
1. “Take time to be quiet.” – Zig Ziglar
2. “Deep rivers run quiet.” – Haruki Murakami
3. “If you can’t be kind, be quiet.” – Unknown
4. “I was quiet but I was not blind.” – Jane Austen
5. “Be quiet, so that life may speak.” – Leo Babauta
6. “Quiet people have the loudest minds.” – Stephen Hawking
7. “There is real comfort in being quiet.” – Justina Chen
8. “Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.” – Susan Cain
9. “The quiet mind is richer than a crown.” – Robert Greene
10. “Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.” – Ma Java Sati Bhagavati
11. “The good and the wise lead quiet lives.” – Euripides
12. “The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
13. “What’s quiet is more powerful than you think.” – Maxime Lagacé
14. “Never assume quiet is weak and loud is strong.” – Unknown
15. “Your mind just needs a diet of calm and quiet.” – Maxime Lagacé
16. “There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.” – Aung San Suu Kyi
17. “The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.” – Rumi
18. “Being quiet is fine, most people don’t listen anyways.” – Unknown
19. “Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.” – Iain Duncun Smith
20. “Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.” – Pythagoras
21. “You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.” – Stephen Chbosky
22. “It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.” – Robert W. Service
23. “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” – Albert Einstein
24. “An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.” – Walter Bagehot
25. “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” – Blaise Pascal
26. “All sorrow has its root in man’s inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.” – Blaise Pascal
27. “Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
28. “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” – Marcus Aurelius
29. “Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.” – Stephen Crane
30. “Understand that half the game is keeping quiet, and carefully watching those around you.” – Robert Greene
31. “It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.” – Jon Kabat Zinn
32. “When an introvert is quiet, don’t assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.” – Laurie Helgoe
33. “This quiet ongoing solitude of mine is how I say I miss you without admitting it out loud.” – Beau Taplin
34. “In stillness lives wisdom. In quiet you’ll find peace. In solitude you’ll remember yourself.” – Robin Sharma
35. “If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.” – Federico Fellini
36. “Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.” – Deepak Chopra
37. “Just because I am not talking doesn’t mean I’m in a bad mood. Sometimes, I just like being quiet.” – Unknown
38. “Sometimes quiet people really do have a lot to say – they’re just being careful about who they open up to.” – Susan Gale
39. “Solitude isn’t loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly.” – Victoria Erickson
40. “You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.” – Robert Brault
41. “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
42. “Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.” – Napoleon Hill
43. “Don’t underestimate me because I’m quiet. I know more than I say, think more than I speak and observe more than you know.” – Michaela Chung
44. “Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.” – William Powell
45. “Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity’s greatest achievements.” – Susan Cain
46. “Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.” – Charlotte Eriksson
47. “Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.” – Khaled Hosseini
48. “For quiet, sensitive souls, solitude is the golden thread that unites us with our inner world… We need quiet to connect the dots in our constellations of thoughts.” – Michaela Chung
49. “If the conversation doesn’t interest us, we often go quiet and wander the wonderland that is our imagination. We find endless entertainment in our ideas and fantasies.” – Michaela Chung
50. “When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.” – Albert Einstein
51. “As an introvert, you are sensitive, perceptive, gentle and reflective. You prefer to operate behind the scenes, preserve your precious energy and influence the world in a quiet, but powerful way.” – Aletheia Luna
52. “I like cancelled plans. And empty bookstores. I like rainy days and thunderstorms. And quiet coffee shops. I like messy beds and over-worn pajamas. Most of all, I like the small joys that a simple life brings.” – Unknown
53. “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
54. “Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.” – Susan Cain
55. “You are surprised, aren’t you, at the contrast between my fame throughout the world… and the isolation and quiet in which I live here. I wished for this isolation all my life, and now I have finally achieved it here in Princeton.” – Albert Einstein
56. “It’s okay if every weekend doesn’t lead to big moments and campfires and laughter that carries on for hours and hours. Some weekends might be quiet, still, with plenty of room to contemplate. And in that contemplation room, there is room to grow.” – Morgan Harper Nichols
57. “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 Kakfa
58. “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
59. “The most important thing to know about being an introvert is that there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re not broken because you’re quiet. It’s okay to stay home on a Friday night instead of going to a party. Being an introvert is a perfectly normal ‘thing’ to be.” – Jenn Granneman
60. “Shyness is about the fear of social judgments – at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.” – Susan Cain
61. “If you’re an introvert, you also know that the bias against quiet can cause deep psychic pain. As a child you might have overheard your parents apologize for your shyness. Or at school you might have been prodded to come ‘out of your shell’ – that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and some humans are just the same.” – Susan Cain
Conclusion Of Quite People Quotes
Being a quiet and introverted person myself, I really enjoyed writing this list of quite people quotes as it taught me to be more comfortable in my own skin and embrace my quietness.
If you want to learn more about quiet people/introverts, the book Quiet by Susan Cain is definitely worth a read and breaks down one quiet people are usually misunderstood.