Rush Limbaugh Quotes

I talk too much.

Listen more than you talk.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

It illustrates vividly my incapacity of knowing when to be silent and when to speak.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish within yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.