Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

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Best Quotes about Speech

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Walter Bagehot

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

10.

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

Cato The Elder

11.

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

12.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

13.

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

Moralia

14.

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

15.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

16.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

17.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

18.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

19.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Cioran, E. M.

21.

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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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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Cruise, Tom

25.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

26.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Proverb, Arabian

29.

A long tongue shortens life.

30.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

31.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

32.

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

33.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

35.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Chuang-tzu

37.

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

Mann, Thomas

38.

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

Sophocles

39.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

40.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Thomas Carlyle

43.

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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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

45.

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

46.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

47.

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

48.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

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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Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare