Motivational Quotes

Speech

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

- Goodman, Paul

Best Quotes about Speech

1.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18]

Bible

2.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

3.

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Moralia

4.

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Connolly, Cyril

5.

I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

6.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

7.

Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

Mann, Thomas

8.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

9.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Cruise, Tom

10.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

11.

Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)

Seneca

12.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

13.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Gore Vidal

15.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Barthes, Roland

16.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Tiberius

17.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

Campbell, Patrick

20.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

24.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang-tzu

26.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

27.

Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.

William Shakespeare

28.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

29.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

30.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

31.

Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

Hubbard, Kin

32.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

33.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

34.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

35.

I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.

William Shakespeare

36.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Simmons, Charles

38.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

39.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

Ball, Patricia Ann

41.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

42.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

William Shakespeare

43.

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

Fallaci, Oriana

44.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6]

Bible

45.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

46.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Maxims of Ptahhotep

47.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

48.

Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.

William Shakespeare

49.

Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.

50.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Sir William Osler