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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Speech.
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
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A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Silence is safer than speech.
- Epictetus
There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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