Speaking Quotes

The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever said. All the words. Starting from your very first one.

~ Colleen Hoover

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

With your breath, issue words of a new contract. Become the law creator of a new prosperity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There's nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

People can go on telling themselves things like “Think before you speak!” or “You don’t believe that yourself” or “Forget it!” But they can also say, “Oh, what lovely flowers!” or “Are you a phone freak or something?” or “Suit yourself,” or “This record makes me feel so happy!’ Wonderful! Words are delightful little gifts we exchange like the Easter eggs we paint and hide for others to find and enjoy. I’d forgotten that, but you reminded me of it.

~ Thomas Brussig

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. 'Tis over now.

~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor

Speak kindly to and of yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

~ Gerald R. Ford

I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

~ Paulo Coelho

Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.

~ Chris Dietzel

Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

~ George Ebers

Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Every time you speak, you are either building up yourself for the better or you are limiting yourself for the worse. Words carry power, therefore before you speak out, speak in... and test your words!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be journalism.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

~ Voltaire

Protect your destiny by vowing to refrain yourself from thinking or speaking whatever it is you aren't willing to embrace it's reality from the universe.

~ Hafiz

Translating from #cat is easy - you just ignore everything, then you decide what you want it to have said, thought, or wanted.

~ Will Advise

Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perfection is the enemy of authenticity.

~ Lisa Braithwaite

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

~ Amit Kalantri

Is that the biggest favor your vocal cords have done to anyone this week?

~ Pawan Mishra

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

~ Carl William Brown

God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent of grace to catch my wandering attention and quiet what Buddhists might call my “monkey mind,” which is more often than not swinging wildly from branch to branch on intellectual and emotional trees. On the way back down the hiking trail after my encounter with the hawk in Big Sky, I stopped thinking and started looking and listening. That's when I realized winter was turning into spring before me. Change was happening. Creation, and perhaps the Creator, was speaking. I just needed to be outside to hear the voice.

~ Cathleen Falsani

But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?

~ Tove Jansson

Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge – how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip – from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man’s face as he listens to himself speak.

~ Neal Stephenson

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.

~ Jazz Feylynn

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting tongue. If a tongue twister's tongue could twist, how many twists would the tongue twister's tongue twist while their tongue was a twisting.

~ Jazz Feylynn

So many people understand language, but few people understand the real meaning of language. They that understand the meaning of language understand language and life better!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.

~ Matthew De Abaitua

I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

~ Joseph Brodsky