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I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.
— David Livingstone
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
— St. Jerome
Remember, what you say comes back to you.
— Zig Ziglar
Psalm 107:2 says, "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so." The Scriptures tell us that death and life are in the power of our words (Prov. 18:21). Think about that—death and life are released by what we say. Make sure the words you speak are life-producing words.
— Dutch Sheets
Real civilisation means an education that extends to the whole of life, in contradistinction to that of school or college: it means an education that forms speech, forms manners, forms taste, forms ideals, and above all forms judgment.
— Edith Wharton
This word is composed of jus and dictio, juris dictio or a speaking and pronouncing of the law.
— Alexander Hamilton
Like apples of gold in a silver setting is a word that is aptly spoken. It is a golden ring, an ornament of finest gold, such is a wise apology to an attentive ear." —Proverbs 25:11—12
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech.
— Rick Warren
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
— Confucius
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
— Brigham Young
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
— James A. Garfield
The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.
— Calvin Coolidge