Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Speech

1.

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

2.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

3.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

4.

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

William Shakespeare

5.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

6.

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

7.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

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

9.

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Barthes, Roland

11.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

12.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

13.

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

Hesse, Hermann

14.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

15.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

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

17.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

18.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

19.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

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

Raphael, Frederic

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

Noonan, Peggy

27.

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

28.

A long tongue shortens life.

29.

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

30.

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

Arendt, Hannah

31.

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

Sir William Osler

32.

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

33.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

34.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

35.

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

Tiberius

36.

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

Cruise, Tom

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Demosthenes

41.

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

Sophocles

42.

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

43.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

44.

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

45.

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

Publilius Syrus

46.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.