Speech Quotes

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

~ Amit Kalantri

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

~ Nicole Krauss

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

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

~ Derek Landy

There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech…

~ Dan Stevens

Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.

~ Criss Jami

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

~ George Eliot

I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

~ Ben Lerner

Your conversations are the beginning of your connections, be careful of your communications. Talk politely to strangers, you have no knowledge about how many of them will become your close friends forever!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.

~ Elizabeth George

Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, “enriched” by all this.

~ Paul Celan

No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One person is talking,the other one is not really listening.someone can look like they are but they'reactually thinking about something they want to say, or their minds are justwandering. Or they're looking at thatlittle box people hold in their hands thesedays. And people get discouraged, so theyquit trying. And the very quiet people,you may have noticed, are often the sadpeople.

~ Mary Oliver

...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!

~ Gail Carriger

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

Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare and choose one! Speak politely, but be sure you get to where you are going with your words.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.

~ Bill Johnson

A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113)

~ Prem Prakash

You can say the same thing nicely.

~ Peggy Sue Wells

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

~ Blaise Pascal

Self-consciousness kills communication.

~ Rick Steves

Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.

~ A.j. Jacobs

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

~ Voltaire

…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

~ Jack Kerouac

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

~ John Steinbeck

This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I never think of the term as a marker of geography. It's a reference to time, a statement about time, about all the densities of being and experience, it's time disguised, it's light-up time, shifting smoky time tricked out as some locus of stable arrangement. When people use that term they're talking about the way things used to be before they moved out here, the way the world used to be, not just New Jersey or South Philly, or before their parents moved, or grandparents, and about the way things still exist in some private relativity theory, some smoky shifting mind dimension, or before the other men and women came this way, the ones in Conestoga wagons, a term we learned in grade school, a back-east term, stemming from the place where the wagons were made. (pg.333)

~ Don Delillo

I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true.

~ Ernest O. Lawrence

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.

~ J.k. Rowling

A Speechmaker's Prayer: Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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

~ Amit Kalantri

Darkness promotes speech.

~ Alberto Manguel

Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.

~ Billy Graham

Each of us has a tongue and a voice. These instruments of speech can be used destructively or employed constructively.

~ Billy Graham

Some of the most healing words in any language are, “I’m sorry. Will you forgive me?” How much more we need that confession to our Father in heaven.

~ Billy Graham