Motivational Quotes

Speech

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

10.

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

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

Hesse, Hermann

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

19.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

20.

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

Cruise, Tom

21.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

22.

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

Syrus, Publilius

23.

A long tongue shortens life.

24.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Tiberius

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

29.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

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

Arendt, Hannah

33.

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

Walter Bagehot

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Thomas Carlyle

36.

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

37.

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

Sir William Osler

38.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

42.

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

43.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

44.

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.

45.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

46.

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

47.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Mark Twain