Quotes About Speech

The speech of God's beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

We can't just follow Paris for the sake of Paris! As long as I live, I shall never forget those words. That speech was certainly more stirring to me than anything Churchill had ever said.

One way to be sure of saying nothing that can be taken amiss is to say nothing at all.

That's a beautiful speech, but nobody's listening. Let's go.

Man's word is God in man.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.

Tongue is a beast, if it is let loose, it devours.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.

One who says unpleasant things about others, will himself quickly become a target of their scandal.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth while the tongue of the wise man is in his heart

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

to speak without thinkin will lead you to an early grave, or to a very small cinder-block cell!

Stuttering is only a problem–in fact is only abnormal–because our culture places so much value on efficiency and self-mastery. Stuttering breaks communication only because ableist notions have already decided how fast and smooth a person must speak to be heard and taken seriously. An arbitrary line has been drawn around "normal" speech, and that line is forcefully defended.

There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying.

Before we open our mouths, we ought to heed the advice of the missionary Amy Carmichael and ask: Is what I'm about to say kind? Is it true? Is it necessary?

The Puritan Thomas Brooks once wrote, "We know metals by their tinkling, and men by their talking."[113

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Socratic dialectic takes place in speech and, although drawn forward by the search for synthesis, always culminates in doubt. ... Marxs dialectic takes place in deed and puts an end to theoretical conflicts.