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"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success." »Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
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"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." »Maxims of Ptahhotep
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"Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another." »Sophocles
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." »David Mamet
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"After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone." »Henry Bromel
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." »Chuang-tzu, On Leveling All Things
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"Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." »Chuang-tzu
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"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." »Sonya Friedman
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"Perfection is only a standard set by the human mind as to what it desires." »Alishia May
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"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it." »Carl R. Rogers
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"Lately..... all a girl desires from a guy is a GOOD SOUL(Standard of Ur Living)!!!!!" »Siddharth Astir
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles." »Brooks Hays
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"The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently." »Ira Erwin
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"If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well." »Lawana Blackwell
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"Knowledge produces mildness of speech; mildness of speech, a good character; a good character, wealth; wealth, if virtuous actions attend it, happiness." »The Hitopadesa
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech." »Rowan Atkinson
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"We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free." »Aldo Leopold
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"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability." »Oscar Wilde
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"If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear." »Rolland W. Schloerb
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"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity." »Bill Vaughan
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"Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute." »Cicero
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"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others." »Hazlitt
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"One main reason the US has been able to prevent its currency and economy from collapsing, despite the latest wars, huge debt and massive currency printing, is because the dollar is the de-facto standard for international trade and reserve currency." »Med Jones
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"Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also." »Seneca
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"speech is the mirror of the mind." »Seneca
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