Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Language is the dress of thought.
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.
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.
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
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.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
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.
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
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.
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