
Your tongue is your power. Preserve it, it will preserve you. Betray it, it will betray you.
- Topic: Communication, Power, Speech
- Location: Caribbean Sea
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.
› Oscar Wilde
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
› John F. Kennedy
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
› Eleanor Roosevelt
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
› Nikola Tesla
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
› Robert Louis Stevenson
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
› Thomas Jefferson
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
› James Baldwin
Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.
› Benjamin Disraeli
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
› James Allen
The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.
› Romans 8:11
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
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
› Pindar
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
› Benjamin Franklin
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
› Steve Jobs
Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
› Patrick Henry
