Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Speech

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

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

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

Demosthenes

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Arendt, Hannah

10.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

11.

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

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

14.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

15.

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

Cioran, E. M.

16.

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

17.

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

Chuang-tzu

18.

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

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

24.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Mark Twain

26.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

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.

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

Noonan, Peggy

29.

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

30.

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

Tiberius

31.

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

Cato The Elder

32.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

33.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

37.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

Moralia

39.

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

Mann, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Cruise, Tom

42.

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

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

44.

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

45.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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