Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints, and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
Benjamin Franklin
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.
Sir Winston Churchill
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
Lord Brabazon
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Sir Winston Churchill
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day
I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry Truman
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
One of the best rules in conversation is never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Jonathan Swift
Use no reproachful language against anyone, neither curses nor revilings.
George Washington
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Benjamin Franklin
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Benjamin Franklin
Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
Words that do not create images should be discarded.
Gerry Spence
I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
Gerry Spence
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Ann Landers
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
Never, never, never let words come out of your mouth when your eyes are looking down.
James Humes
Make a point, tell a story. Make another point, tell another story. Make yet another point and tell yet another story. That is the essence of public speaking.
Bill Gove
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
Stephen Covey
This is the source.
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin Luther
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
John Andrew Holmes
Have more than thou showest; speak less than thou knowest.
William Shakespeare
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