Motivational Quotes

Speech

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Raphael, Frederic

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

Sir William Osler

11.

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

12.

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

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

Demosthenes

14.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

15.

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

16.

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

Walter Bagehot

17.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

19.

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

Moralia

20.

A long tongue shortens life.

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Chuang-tzu

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

28.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Hubbard, Kin

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Cioran, E. M.

34.

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

35.

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

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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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

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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

39.

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

40.

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

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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.

42.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

43.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Cato The Elder

47.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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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