Motivational Quotes

Speech

Speech is always bolder than action.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Sophocles

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

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

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Chuang-tzu

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

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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.

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

Mann, Thomas

15.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

17.

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

18.

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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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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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

28.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Seneca

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

Walter Bagehot

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.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

34.

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

Moralia

35.

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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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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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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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

40.

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

Mark Twain

41.

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

Cruise, Tom

43.

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

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Thomas Carlyle