Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Hansell B. Duckett

Best Quotes about Speech

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Cato The Elder

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

William Shakespeare

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Raphael, Frederic

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

10.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Paz, Octavio

11.

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

12.

Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.

William Shakespeare

13.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

14.

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

15.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

16.

I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.

William Shakespeare

17.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Noonan, Peggy

18.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.

Caine, Michael

19.

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

Tiberius

20.

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

21.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Melville, Herman

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Rorty, Richard

24.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

27.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

Mann, Thomas

31.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

32.

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.

33.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

34.

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

35.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

36.

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

Cruise, Tom

37.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Cioran, E. M.

38.

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

Syrus, Publilius

39.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Walter Bagehot

40.

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

Thomas Carlyle

41.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

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

Hubbard, Kin

44.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

45.

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

46.

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

47.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

48.

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

Moralia

49.

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

Seneca

50.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Wilder, Thornton