Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Speech

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

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Demosthenes

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.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mann, Thomas

10.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

16.

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

17.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

18.

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

Mark Twain

19.

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

20.

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

Cato The Elder

21.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

22.

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

Arendt, Hannah

23.

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

Proverb, Arabian

24.

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

Tiberius

25.

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

Walter Bagehot

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

35.

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.

36.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

37.

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

Sir William Osler

38.

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

Seneca

39.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Cruise, Tom

41.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

42.

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

43.

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

Chuang-tzu

44.

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

45.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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.