Quotes about Speech
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
- Will Rogers
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
- Alphonsus Liguori
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
- Thomas Merton
The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.
- Martin Luther
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
- Martin Luther
Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.
- Joel Osteen
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson