(1343 quotes found)
“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
Mark Twain
“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...”
Lawrence Clark Powell
“According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
Jerry Seinfeld
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.”
Buddha
“Some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.”
Winston Churchill
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.”
