Speech Quotes

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech,
whether in a senator or an orator.

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

With God there is no need for long speeches.

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

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

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

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

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

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

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.