Quotes About Speech

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

My moral obligation is to God. I won't curse in God's name.

Obscenity comes from grime.

Let every writer tell his own lies That's freedom of the press.

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

The words we speak have a direct and definite effect upon our thoughts. Thoughts create words, for words are the vehicles of ideas. But words also affect thoughts and help to condition if not to create attitudes. In fact, what often passes for thinking starts with talk.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]

I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words,' objected Milo. 'Of course, of course, everyone here does,' the king grunted. 'You should have made a tastier speech.

The words you speak show exactly the shape that your inner man is in.

Si las revoluciones no se hacen con palabras, las ideas no se implantan con decretos.

How to speak, oh Dream, your silence out loud?

A person could wish for one thing and speak of another, and their fate, their kismet, was the thing that could bring the two together.

Every word we speak is an indestructible force, because it affirms a thought, a sentiment, an emotion, a motive, which never ceases to exert its power.

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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them.

Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.

Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.

What is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves hatred. I know not whether he be truly virtuous, but why should he show readiness of the tongue?

The Master said: 'Artful speech and an ingratiating demeanour rarely accompany virtue.