Margaret Fuller

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

Topic: Communication, Public Speaking, Speech
Location: Death Valley National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Today a reader, tomorrow a reader. — Margaret Fuller

Leadership Learning

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. — Margaret Fuller

Genius

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

› Margaret Fuller

Genius

Self-esteem

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. — Margaret Fuller

Inspiration Knowledge Society

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. — Margaret Fuller

Expectations Nature

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. — Benedict Spinoza

Fear Hope

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. — Mother Teresa

Happiness Love

Never is it more true than in the life of the soul that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. — Emmet Fox

Focus Liberty

Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw

Happiness Health Purpose

Doing your best today creates a better tomorrow. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

› Pythagoras

Communication Integrity Leadership Reputation

Let your actions speak the volume. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Communication

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. — Henry David Thoreau

Communication

The shortest answer is doing the thing. — Ernest Hemingway

Action Communication

When you are losing, wear a winning face. — French Proverb

Attitude Communication

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. — St. Jerome

Communication Listening Speech

Honest debate stops when the name calling starts. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Conflict Honesty Speech

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. — George Washington

Communication Negotiation

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. — African Proverb

Communication Speech

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone says in a whole book—what everyone else does not say in a whole book. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Communication Speech

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. — Plato

Communication Criticism Leadership

Saying is one thing and doing is another. — Michel de Montaigne

Action Communication Leadership Speech

One who tells you about others will tell others about you. — African Proverb

Communication Example Reputation

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. — Thomas Fuller

Appreciation Communication compliment Gratitude Leadership

High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes

Communication Thinking

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Affirmation Choice Communication Goals Purpose Self Self-esteem Speech Vision

A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. — William Shakespeare

Communication Listening Speech

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

› Voltaire

Communication Speech Truth

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. — John Ruskin

Communication Honesty Truth

Be not careless in your deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. — Marcus Aurelius

Action Communication Public Speaking Speech Thinking

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood: I only speak right on. — William Shakespeare

Communication Public Speaking Speech

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. — Confucius

Action Communication Speech

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. — Aeschylus

Affirmation Communication Health

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. — Mark Twain

Communication Public Speaking

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill, is cordial speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Communication Conflict Public Speaking Speech

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. — Blaise Pascal

Action Public Speaking Reputation Speech

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. — Lee Iacocca

Communication Confidence Public Speaking Speech

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

Public Speaking Speech

Speak, hands, for me! — William Shakespeare

Communication Public Speaking

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

› Steve Jobs

Communication Public Speaking Speech

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

› Hesiod

Public Speaking Speech Truth

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. — Mark Twain

Communication Public Speaking Speech

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. — Horace

Communication Public Speaking Speech

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. — Theodore Roosevelt

Customer Service Public Speaking Service

Public speaking is a skill you get great at, just like anything else, with practice. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Practice Public Speaking Speech Work

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

› Thomas Jefferson

Communication Public Speaking Speech

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Accountability Listening Negotiation Persuasion Public Speaking Self

I never met a speaker more important than a listener. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Leadership Listening Public Speaking Speech

Give thy thoughts no tongue. — William Shakespeare

Communication Listening Public Speaking Solitude Speech Thinking

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. — Winston Churchill

Courage Listening Public Speaking Speech

Understanding a question is half an answer.

› Socrates

Communication Listening Public Speaking Speech Thinking

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. — Desmond Tutu

Communication Conflict Listening Negotiation Persuasion Public Speaking

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. — Jonathan Swift

Communication Public Speaking Speech

When another speaks, be attentive yourself, and disturb not the audience. — George Washington

Communication Listening Public Speaking

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. — Dale Carnegie

Communication Practice Public Speaking Speech

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. — Aristotle

Communication Persuasion Public Speaking Speech

Lasting influence is achieved through persuasion, not coercion. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Negotiation Persuasion Public Speaking

Fear will either control you or set you free. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Courage Fear Freedom Public Speaking

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

Possibility Power Speech Vision

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

› Thomas Mann

Diversity Freedom Speech

A man's ruin lies in his tongue. — Egyptian Proverb

Communication Listening Speech

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon

Communication Knowledge Learning Speech

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality. — Thomas Sowell

Communication Speech

The way you talk to yourself will determine how you speak with others. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Self Speech

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

Fear Freedom Speech

If I listen I have the advantage. If I speak, others have it. — Confucius

Communication Listening 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

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. — Oscar Wilde

Integrity Mistakes Public Speaking Speech

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. — Mohandas Gandhi

Conflict Freedom Honesty Liberty Speech

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old. — Michel de Montaigne

Age Speech Truth

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak. — William Shakespeare

Fortune Speech Time

You have the right to offend me. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Confidence Conflict Self-esteem Speech

Listening taught you how to speak. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Example Listening Speech

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

› G. K Chesterton

Liberty Speech

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

Communication Power Speech

It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words. — John Heywood

Communication Speech

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. — Cicero

Speech Thinking

Trying to silence a person speaks. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Speech Truth

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

› Louis Dembitz Brandeis

Fear Freedom Liberty Speech

The pinnacle of leadership is listening. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Listening Speech

Before I speak, I have something important to say. — Groucho Marx

Communication Public Speaking Speech

If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me. — Thomas Fuller

Honesty Speech Truth