Motivational Quotes

Speech

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Speech

1.

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

Publilius Syrus

2.

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

Seneca

3.

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

4.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

5.

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

Mann, Thomas

6.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

7.

Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

8.

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

9.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

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

11.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

12.

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

13.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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.

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

Demosthenes

16.

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

Hesse, Hermann

17.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

Cioran, E. M.

19.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

24.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

25.

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

Walter Bagehot

26.

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

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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

28.

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

Moralia

29.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

30.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Chuang-tzu

35.

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

Thomas Carlyle

36.

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.

37.

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

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.

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

Mark Twain

40.

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