(1274 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
“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
“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
“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
“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.”
Winston Churchill
“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.”
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