Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Publilius Syrus

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Aitkins, Eileen

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

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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

Cato The Elder

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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

Seneca

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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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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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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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

Tiberius

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Mark Twain

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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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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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

Moralia

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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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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

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Raphael, Frederic

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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