Paul Harvey

First have something to say that is worth hearing and the rest will take care of itself.

Topic: Speech
Location: Lake Tahoe
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, “What’s your secret?” and I will tell them, “I just get up again when I fall down.

› Paul Harvey

Dedication

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Business Failure

Knowing your own darkness is the best method of dealing with the darkness of other people. — Carl Jung

Awareness Perception Self

Let the last thought of your day be a positive one. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Optimism Thinking

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. — Napoleon Hill

Desire Goals

When the occasion is piled high with difficulty, that’s when we must rise with the occasion. — Abraham Lincoln

Adversity Commitment Dedication Focus

Veracity is the heart of morality. — Thomas H. Huxley

Truth

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. — Henry Ford

Innovation Leadership

Freedom Learning

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. — Thomas Jefferson

Discipline Freedom Liberty Society

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. — George Washington

Freedom Speech

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

› Sophocles

Honesty Honor Speech Truth

The way to become boring is to say everything. — Voltaire

Communication Listening Speech

Speech

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

› Mark Twain

Freedom Speech

Who serves well and says nothing makes claim enough. — Italian Proverb

Action Communication Service Speech Work

If we tried to sink the past beneath our feet, be sure the future would not stand. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Freedom Liberty Society Speech

What you don’t tell speaks truth. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Honesty Speech Truth

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

› Thomas Mann

Diversity Freedom Speech

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.

› Eleanor Holmes Norton

Speech

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

› Plutarch

Communication Listening Speech

Action Speech Vision

We have two ears and only one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. — Epictetus

Communication Listening Speech

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

› Thomas Jefferson

Communication Public Speaking Speech

Open your mind before your mouth. — Aristophanes

Communication Speech

A scared thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. — Plutarch

Public Speaking Speech

Your tongue is your power. Preserve it, it will preserve you. Betray it, it will betray you. — African Proverb

Communication Power Speech

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment

› Constitution of the United States

Freedom Speech