Motivational Quotes

Speech

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Speech

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

10.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

11.

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

Cato The Elder

12.

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

Demosthenes

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

Thomas Carlyle

17.

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

Cioran, E. M.

18.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

19.

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

Moralia

20.

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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.

23.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

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

25.

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

Tiberius

26.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

36.

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

Cruise, Tom

37.

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

Raphael, Frederic

38.

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

Sir William Osler

39.

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

Mann, Thomas

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

45.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

47.

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

Walter Bagehot

48.

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

Hubbard, Kin

49.

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

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

Mark Twain