Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Speech

1.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

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

Seneca

3.

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

Chuang-tzu

4.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

5.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

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.

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

8.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

9.

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

Hesse, Hermann

10.

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

Mark Twain

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.

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

Mann, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

Noonan, Peggy

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

18.

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.

19.

A long tongue shortens life.

20.

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

21.

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

Moralia

22.

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

23.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

24.

I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Cato The Elder

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

28.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

29.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Tiberius

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Sophocles

36.

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

37.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

38.

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

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.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

41.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

Thomas Carlyle

44.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Hubbard, Kin

47.

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

Sir William Osler

48.

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.

49.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

50.

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

Arendt, Hannah