Motivational Quotes

Speech

Speech is always bolder than action.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Speech

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Moralia

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

William Shakespeare

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

10.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

11.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

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

Cruise, Tom

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Mann, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Publilius Syrus

18.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

19.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

21.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Demosthenes

24.

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

Thomas Carlyle

25.

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

Arendt, Hannah

26.

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

27.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

28.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

29.

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

Raphael, Frederic

30.

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

31.

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

Cato The Elder

32.

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

33.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Walter Bagehot

37.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Mark Twain

39.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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

Hesse, Hermann

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

47.

Thought is the fountain of speech.