Quotes About Speech

The Lord has taught me that it's not enough to stop saying wrong, negative things; I also had to start saying the right, positive thing. While negative words will keep you from being what God wants you to be, positive words will lead you to where God wants you to go.

Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple. —DAVID KEUCK

You must guard your mouth, because no matter what you say, you are launching weapons of one sort or another.

It is only when you speak the Word of God that its power is exerted in your behalf.

death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Prov. 18:21) means that you have tremendous power not only to attract blessing, but also to invoke it in the lives of those you love.

Whatever fills the heart eventually will be spoken, because the mouth is the faucet of the heart.

Before I Talk, I Should Read A Book

You have the right to free speech, as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. Like unto trees of gold arranged in beds of silver, are wise sentences uttered in due season.

A caged bird set free may be caught again, a hurtful word that escapes your lips will not return

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.

The speech of man is like embroidered tapestries, since like them this too has to be extended in order to display its patterns, but when it is rolled up it conceals and distorts them.

The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God—the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

By the way, both the men of my regiment and the friends I had made in the old days in the West were themselves a little puzzled at the interest shown in my making my speech after being shot. This was what they expected, what they accepted as the right thing for a man to do under the circumstances, a thing the non-performance of which would have been discreditable rather than the performance being creditable.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

Saraswati, in her manifestation as Divine Speech, represents a route, through mantra, to grasping the underlying spiritual laws of the universe and through them the attainment of personal spiritual and material power.

No man can safely speak, unless he who would gladly remain silent.

On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.

Objection 3: Further, Gregory says (Moral. ii): "God speaks to the angels by the very fact that He shows to their hearts His hidden and invisible things." But this is to enlighten them. Therefore, whenever God speaks, He enlightens. In the same way every angelic speech is an enlightening. Therefore an inferior angel can in no way speak to a superior angel.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.