Speaking Quotes
175 quotes
"Think before you speak. Read before you think."
"I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good."
"In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense."
"All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions."
"Better than learning how to speak a foreign language, is to start speaking the truth. But few people will listen, because they just don’t understand."
"Silence is expansive, filling up a whole room in seconds, like a balloon filled with awkwardness. It’s amazing how saying nothing can be so different from having nothing to say."
"If what you wear says more about who you are then what you say when you speak, then my advice is to keep quiet and wear loud clothing."
"I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed to picking up on political rhetoric."
"I spoke like a spoke on a wheel, as I went around and around without actually saying what I wanted to say. I was love flustered."
"My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"
"You can use your mouth to speak the words I love you, or you can use your mouth to kiss me and transport love from your mind to my heart."
"I have two ears, so why can’t I listen to two things at once? A politician only has one mouth, yet doublespeaks all the time."
"Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks."
"Words are magic. They have the power to hurt and to heal, and even withholding them has the power to hurt and to heal. What else has as much potency in its absence and can do without doing? What I mean is, even when you don’t say anything, you are communicating as effectively as if you’d spoken."
"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."
"Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program."
"Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes."
"My mother-in-law got so angry at me she vowed she’d never speak to me again, and I smiled and gave thanks for the little miracle God worked in my life."
"Believe God for something today. Prayer is the key to connecting with God and allowing Him to speak to your spirit. Open your heart and free your mind."
"Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself."
"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
"Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her."
"Our vocabulary may become a real time algorithmic word bank. Could you imagine having a conversation like that? Where the meaning of words constantly adapts?"
"Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth."
"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity."
"I twist and pin my hair at the nape of my neck, and then stand with legs wide. It’s what Nash told me to do before speaking because men, no matter how many times they profess women are equal, prefer to take direction from bodies like theirs."
"If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions."
"We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation."
"You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue."
"If you say something as if it were, that isn't, is it considered a lie, or speaking it into existence?"
"We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice, and the likeness of this human voice must be rendered in dots and strokes...Yet I never forget that the voice, too, is important...Don't mumble or hesitate. Speak...in a loud voice, clearly, and without fear."
Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
"It's easy to waste too many words—and too much energy—on nonsense we don't even care about. What a relief it is to start giving time and energy to what matters most (whatever that is for you). We choose what gets our attention. Why not choose things that are worthy of it?When he chose only to speak about things he absolutely believed, knew to be true, or really cared about, he was delighted by how much less talking he needed to do."
"The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts."
"The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know."
"To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not."
"Thinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at."
"Be silent & you are considered on idiot. Be voluble & you are considered a nuisance. The perfect balance between speaking and remaining silent makes you a gentleman!"
"Influence is when you don't talk and yet your words fill the room when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere."
"Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts."
"Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)"
"Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you."
"Sometimes words I think are small come out big."
"The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind."
"When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win!Conversations aren't contests!Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead."
Bill Watterson, It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
"That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better."
"Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out."
"Then I wondered, what if?What if he kissed me? What if he told me I was beautiful? What if he told me he loved me?What would I say in return?"
"When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in."
"Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost.But not the gestures."
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