Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Hansell B. Duckett

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Syrus, Publilius

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Aitkins, Eileen

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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

Cato The Elder

10.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

15.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Tiberius

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

24.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hesse, Hermann

25.

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

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

27.

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

28.

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

34.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Sir William Osler

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

Chuang-tzu

42.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Belson, Rami

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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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

45.

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

46.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare