Words
220 quotes: 20 by Keith Craft, 200 from other voices.
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- Speech is great, but silence is greater.
- Style may be defined, proper words in proper places.
- Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.Bob RossCommonly attributed
- Talk of those things that will make people the better for listening to you.
- Talking and eloquence are not the same; to speak, and to speak well are two things.
- The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
- The best rules of rhetoric are, to speak intelligently; speak from the heart; have something to say; say it; and stop when you've done.
- The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.Mark TwainSourced
- The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
- The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
- The memory of an unkind word often outlasts the remembrance of many charitable acts.
- The more urgently you want to speak, the more likely it is that you will say something foolish.
- The pen is mightier than the sword.
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- The rule in carving holds good as to criticism,--never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
- The secret of making oneself tiresome is not to know when to stop.
- The way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.
- The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
- The well-served customer...is an appreciating asset. Every small act on her or his behalf ups the odds of repeat business, add-on business, and priceless word-of-mouth referral.
- The word that once escapes the tongue cannot be recalled; the arrow cannot be detained which has once sped from the bow.
- The words 'I am' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you!
- There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words, the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.Fredrika BremerCommonly attributed
- There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. Talk as if you were making your will: the fewer words the less litigation.
- There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character.
- There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
- There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.
- There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
- There’s someone around you who looks up to you. They may be struggling, full of doubt or afraid. You can change their life with four words. “I believe in you”. Said at the right time, those are the most powerful words in the world.
- These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.Nathanael EmmonsSourced
- This is such a serious world that we should never speak at all unless we have something to say.
- To acquire a few tongues is the task of a few years; but to be eloquent in one is the labour of a life.
- To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
- To tell our own secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery.
- True eloquence consists in saying all that should be, not all that could be said.
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time.
- We always weaken what we exaggerate.
- We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly.
- We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
- We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?
- We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.