Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel Osteen

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill Cosby

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney

Before I speak, I have something important to say.
Groucho Marx

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso