Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Tiberius

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Mark Twain

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Cato The Elder

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.

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

Thomas Carlyle

11.

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

12.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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.

17.

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

Arendt, Hannah

18.

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

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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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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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

25.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hansell B. Duckett

28.

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

Demosthenes

29.

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

Sir William Osler

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

34.

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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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

36.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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

Cruise, Tom

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A long tongue shortens life.

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

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

Hubbard, Kin

41.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

43.

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

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Sophocles

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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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