Speech Quotes

• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Thinking, People

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• Language is the dress of thought.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Learning, Thinking

  Lives of the English Poets "Cowley" (1779 - 1781)

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• If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Relationship, Freedom

  Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

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• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Book, Communication

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.520, Courier Corporation

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• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

  Xenocrates

  Inspirational, Witty, Powerful

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• Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

  Ivan Bunin

  Differences, Novelists, Behaviour

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• Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Mind, Care

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.47

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• There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

  Mark Twain

  Oratory, World, Persuasive

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

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• In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

  George Orwell

  Time, Writing, Political Language

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

  Joseph Addison

  Nine, Pounds, Thousand

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.149

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• All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Language, Prepared, Willing

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.5302, Delphi Classics

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• Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Golden, Harvest, Flowering

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.187

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Power Of Speech, Good Sense

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

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• The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Use It Or Lose It, Want, Use

  'Essays' 5 'The Use of Language'

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• When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Thinking, Envy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

  Aristotle

  Moving, People, Action

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• When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, World

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Hours, Dies

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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Parenting, Public Speaking

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• It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Life, Thank You, Thankful

  "After Very Visible Roles, Lupita Nyong'o Looks To Disappear Into Character". Interview with Neda Ulaby, www.npr.org. April 23, 2016.

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