Communication Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue.…

— Thiruvalluvar

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

— John Sterling

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain,…

— Gorgias

Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil,…

— Martin Luther

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

— Anonymous

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

— Maria Montessori

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

— Lord Mansfield