Speak Quotes

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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• The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Law, Silence, Oratory

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.308, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right.

  T. B. Joshua

  Thinking, Training

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Truth, Power, Ifs

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• The power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth.

  Joel Osteen

  Destiny, Words You Speak, Mouths

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• Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Islamic, Healing

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• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Teacher, Congratulations

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.122, Lulu.com

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• We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

  Epictetus

  Kindness, Communication, Compassion

  "The Golden Sayings of Epictetus" by Epictetus, translated by Hastings Crossley, Vol. II, Part 2, The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909.

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• You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.

  David Niven

  Movie, Healing, Character

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• I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Odds, Two, Silence

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, November 20, 1872.

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• You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.

  Jim Rohn

  Preparation, Share, Feels

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 12, 2016

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• I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

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• ...smile first, then speak.

  George Saunders

  Firsts

  George Saunders (2007). “The Braindead Megaphone”, p.213, Penguin

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• You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.

  Jim Rohn

  Communication, Giving, Preparation

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 01, 2015

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• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

  Amit Abraham

  Speak No Evil, Evil

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Civil Rights, Dies

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  Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

  Samuel Ullman

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Time

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• 10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.

  Will Smith

  Hate, Giving, Promise

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• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  Stephen King

  Love, Friendship, Fake People

  "The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

  Bill Cosby

  Integrity, Thinking, Speak Your Mind

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• Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

  Shel Silverstein

  Talking, Muddle

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