Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Speech

1.

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

2.

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

Thomas Carlyle

3.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

4.

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

5.

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

Raphael, Frederic

6.

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

Sir William Osler

7.

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

8.

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

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Cato The Elder

10.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

11.

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

12.

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

Mann, Thomas

13.

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.

14.

A long tongue shortens life.

15.

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

16.

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

Demosthenes

17.

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

Tiberius

18.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

19.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

24.

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

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Noonan, Peggy

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Arendt, Hannah

32.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

33.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

34.

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

35.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

38.

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