Motivational Quotes

Speech

Speech is always bolder than action.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Speech

1.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

2.

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

William Shakespeare

3.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

Proverb, Arabian

5.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

6.

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

Cruise, Tom

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

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

11.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

12.

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

13.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

Cioran, E. M.

18.

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

19.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

Sir William Osler

22.

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

23.

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

24.

A long tongue shortens life.

25.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

26.

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

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

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

Demosthenes

30.

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

31.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

32.

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

Hesse, Hermann

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Tiberius

37.

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

Moralia

38.

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

39.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

42.

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

43.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

44.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

45.

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

Cato The Elder

46.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

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

48.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

49.

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

50.

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

Walter Bagehot