Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Sophocles

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

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

Demosthenes

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

Tiberius

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

15.

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

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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.

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

18.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

19.

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

Mann, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Hesse, Hermann

22.

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

Moralia

23.

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

Mark Twain

24.

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

Arendt, Hannah

25.

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

26.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

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

Noonan, Peggy

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

32.

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

Cruise, Tom

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

35.

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

Chuang-tzu

37.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

38.

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

39.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

Publilius Syrus

41.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

42.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

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

Seneca

45.

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

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

49.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

50.

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