Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

William Shakespeare

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Hansell B. Duckett

10.

A long tongue shortens life.

11.

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

Tiberius

12.

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

13.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

16.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

17.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Demosthenes

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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

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

22.

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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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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

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Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.

Hoskins, John

28.

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

Walter Bagehot

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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

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

Noonan, Peggy

33.

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

34.

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

Mark Twain

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

Chuang-tzu

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cato The Elder

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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

41.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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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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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

44.

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

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

Sophocles

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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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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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