Quotes about Speech
Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart.
— John Piper
Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3
— John Piper
The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.
— John Piper
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
— Ellen White
It is a law of nature that our thoughts and feelings are encouraged and strengthened as we give them utterance.
— Ellen White
Can it be that man, made in the image of God, endowed with reason and speech, shall alone be unappreciative of His gifts and disobedient to His laws? Will those who might be elevated and ennobled, fitted to be colaborers with Him, be content to remain imperfect in character and to cause confusion in our world?.
— Ellen White
how to structure a speech: introduction, three main points, peroration, and conclusion.
— George W. Bush
if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
— George Washington
Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
— George Washington
Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion.
— George Washington
It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.
— Mark Twain
There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.
— Mark Twain