Speaking Quotes

It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people this is an almost impossible exercise, for they have become totally habituated to speaking critically. We all seem to have a special talent for finding critical things to say about the world, about others, and about ourselves! (117)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

I feel more, hence I speak less!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Are you speaking your mind or expressing your feelings?

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Max always mumbles; not in a shy way, but rather as if he's telling you what it will cost to take out your worst enemy, or how much you'd have to pay to rig a horse race.

~ Scarlett Thomas

I think most of what the majority of people say is said without thinking.

~ Kenneth Eade

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

~ Suzy Kassem

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

~ Morgan Matson

An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.

~ Amit Kalantri

When I am in a situation where I feel uncomfortable about speaking but it is necessary for me to speak, or if I feel 'put on the spot' my voice sounds strained, really weird, and it feels as if I have no control over how I sound in these situations. Sometimes then my voice is barely audible and I am frequently asked to repeat myself. Attempts at speaking are often embarrassing, shaming experiences for me. I sound quite different when speaking with someone I am more relaxed with, but I don't like the way my voice sounds at the best of times; I was horrified when I heard a recording of myself. Because of this inhibition about speaking, I have never learned to project my voice or to use it effectively. I often feel that I could no more use my vocal cords to break a silence, to get somebody's attention or to initiate an interaction than I could run through fire or do something dangerous in my life.

~ Carl Sutton

My silence never means I don’t have nothing to talk, but it was important who were audiences and what was the topic.

~ Ali Rezavand Zayeri

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

~ Craig Groeschel

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries -old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

~ Umberto Eco

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

~ Plato

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

~ Germany Kent

Day 72I remember oranges and you don’t mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course, you reach for my arm in sympathy and recognition. This may be the thing that breaks me today, that stops me in my tracks before driving me forward, turning a corner, making something work, letting everything happen. When I return, you’re touching my yoghurts, reading the ingredients, as though you are making them yours, protecting them in my absence and amusing yourself with the cherry-ness of them. On days like this, I want to take my strangers home with me.

~ Gemma Seltzer

when i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand.

~ Sanober Khan

Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

To communicate is truly a gift. It is a wondrous ability of your amazing human body, the ability that allows us to connect with other humans to give meaning to our lives. I will argue that it is what makes us human.

~ Kathleen Depperschmidt

Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.

~ Pamela Cummins

Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not 'How many people have you spoken to about Christ this week?' but 'How many people have you listened to in Christ this week?

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Life is always speaking to us at every moment.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

What I speak and express is what, that does not even belong to me.

~ Alok Jagawat

Influencing is just not about listening and speaking, it’s the game of interpretation.

~ Harrish Sairaman

If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

The best Christmas present you can give to your dead grandfather is not showing up until Easter. And telling no one about it. Especially not yourself.

~ Will Advise

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

~ Brené Brown

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

~ Tarjei Vesaas

Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

~ Paul Morabito

There are those who speak and those who dream.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Oda once said that when you speak excessively, it isn't necessarily communicating,” Jimmi says as he hunches over, resting his elbows on his knees. He yawns and doesn't cover his mouth.“What does that mean?”“It means that you can shut your mouth and still say what you need to say using the other gifts the gods gave us.

~ Celia Mcmahon

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

~ Brené Brown

I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.I’m listening to my voice as if it were someone else’s,And my voice is speaking about her as if she were speaking.She has hair as blond as yellow wheat in the sun,And when she speaks her mouth says things that aren’t words.She laughs, and her teeth are as clean as stones in a river.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%.

~ Deyth Banger

When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman