Motivational Quotes

Speech

Speech is always bolder than action.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Tiberius

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mark Twain

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Sir William Osler

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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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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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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

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

Demosthenes

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

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 an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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

William Shakespeare

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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

Chuang-tzu

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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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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Moralia

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Seneca

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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.

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

Hesse, Hermann