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Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for the health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance company was about to stop paying for her care. I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of his. And when he spoke to the crowd listening to that father's story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes, because we knew that little girl could be our own.

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

... anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. People in business say that toner cartridges are in short supply, that they have updated the next shipment of these cartridges, and that they will finalize their recommendations at the next meeting of the board. They are speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them--every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse.

Any good thing will be ruined by talking negatively about it; similarly bad thing will improve by speaking positive about it.

Any country where there is no freedom of speech is no more than a Kingdom of Animals where only the powerful speaks!

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.

A person may appear a fool and yet not be one. They may only be guarding their wisdom carefully.

A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside “identity theft” and “mass shootings.” In the 1980s, it completed with “nuclear destruction.” In the 1970s, “shark attack.

ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR? Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech

Are you willing to follow [Christ] with a disciplined mind and tongue?

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

A sharp mind will pierce through any problem; a sharp tongue will pierce through any heart.

A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

As long as you have a Cell Phone you're never alone

...as of this moment there's the police department way, the federal law enforcement way, the military way... and my way. If you want me to function at my best then you're going to have to accept that I'm going to have to make up some of my own rules. I don't know enough about your playbook and, quite frankly, I don't like the way you operate. If I'm not a cop anymore then I'm something else, something new. Okay, then from here on out I'll decide what that is; and that includes building, shaping, and leading my team. My team, my rules.

A Speechmaker's Prayer: "Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it.

A stupid leader is like a dog who’s in love with his own voice. He will bark incessantly believing that people admire his tune. A wise leader gets his point across in as few words as possible and then gets off the stage.

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.

A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.

A sword can only pierce the body, but words can pierce the soul.

A sword is sharp, but can conquer the body alone. The tongue is small, but can conquer hearts, minds and souls.

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

Ay, that I had not done a thousand more. Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think, Few come within the compass of my curse,— Wherein I did not some notorious ill, As kill a man, or else devise his death, Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it, Accuse some innocent and forswear myself, Set deadly enmity between two friends, Make poor men's cattle break their necks; Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night, And bid the owners quench them with their tears. Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves, And set them upright at their dear friends' doors, Even when their sorrows almost were forgot; And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, Have with my knife carved in Roman letters, 'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.' Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things As willingly as one would kill a fly, And nothing grieves me heartily indeed But that I cannot do ten thousand more.

A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton...

A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113)

cadence, n. I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech.

Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission?

Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.

Behind our wise words lie rare jewels; behind our reckless ones, bombs.

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

But Beckett, for all his posturing, talked in scribbles. He gave lines of information with gaping spaces in between.