Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old freedom of speech quotes, freedom of speech sayings, and freedom of speech proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources. These quotes helps you to learn how to deliver a speech. Express your words by these quotes.
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Speech Quotes
“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.” -Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
“What we say is important… for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” -Jim Beggs
“If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.” -Dianna Booher
“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
“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” – Mark Twain
“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.” -Marcus T. Cicero
“Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.” – Joseph Chatfield
“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.” – Joseph Conrad
“There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience.” – Alexander Gregg
“The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.” – Lilly Walters
“If you don’t know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.” – Harvey Diamond
“Best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you’re talking about.” – Michael H Mescon
“There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.” – Mark Twain
“No one ever complains about a speech being too short!” – Ira Hayes
“90% of how well the talk will go is determined before the speaker steps on the platform.” – Somers White
“It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.” – Wayne Burgraff
“The most precious things in speech are the pauses.” – Sir Ralph Richardson
“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.” – Martin Fraquhar Tupper
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carl W. Buechner
“The problem with speeches isn’t so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.” – Frances Rodman
“Words have incredible power.They can make people’s hearts soar,or they can make people’s hearts sore.”-Dr. Mardy Grothe
“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” – Mark Twain
Famous Speech Quotes : To Start A Speech
There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world. – Phil Libin
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. – Reid Hoffman
If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – Max Lucado
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Confucius
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. – Warren Buffett
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. – Rumi
You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. – Michael Dell
Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like. – Brian Chesky
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce Lee
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it. – Elon Musk
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. – Deepak Chopra
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
Fall seven times and stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. – Marie Curie
Speech Quotes And Sayings
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.Soren Kierkegaard
A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.Napoleon I
Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.George Orwell
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.Leo Mckern
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.Brad Thor
Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.Spiro Agnew
Freedom of speech is a guiding rule, one of the foundations of democracy, but at the same time, freedom does not imply anarchy, and the right to exercise free expression does not include the right to do unjustified harm to others.Raphael Cohen-Almagor
We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.Epictetus
Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.Neil Gaiman
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.Marshall Lumsden
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.Barbara Ehrenreich
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.Frederick Douglass
Freedom of speech doesn’t protect speech you like; it protects speech you don’t like.Larry Flynt
Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.David Joseph Cribbin
Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.Tim Fargo
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences.John R Dallas Jr
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.Warren Earl Burger
Free speech not only lives, it rocks!Oprah Winfrey
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.Hugo L. Black
Free speech is life itself.Salman Rushdie
Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.Charles Bradlaugh
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.Stockwell Day
Freedom of speech is not simply a freedom to think and say what you wish, but to speak for yourself, to speak from the heart, and to be accountable for your words.Ian Mccallum
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.Sir Winston Churchill
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from judgement.Jackson Pearce
Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.Ai Weiwei
Perfect Speech Quotes
“If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, “We did this ourselves.”
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
“Contrary to the opinion of many people, leaders are not born. Leaders are made, and they are made by effort and hard work.”
“A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, ” I must follow them. I am their leader.”
“Lead, follow or get out of the way!”
“To lead, one must follow.”
A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn’t mean he has to be consistent.”
“The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.”
“The view only changes for the lead dog.”
“Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.”
Funny Speech Quotes
“Don’t be afraid to talk to yourself. It’s the only way you can be sure somebody’s listening.” – F.P. Jones
“Every speaker has a mouth, an arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom, sometimes it’s filled with feet.” – Robert Orben
“Light travels faster than sound. That’s why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.” – Albert Einstein
“Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.” – Dale Carnegie
“My job is to talk; your job is to listen. If you finish first, please let me know.” – Harry Herschfield
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” – Mark Twain
“Public speaking is very easy.” – Dan Quayle
“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.” – Slovenian proverb
“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it’s taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational Speech Quotes
“To those of you graduates sitting out there who have a pretty good idea of what you’d like to do with your life, congratulations. For many of you who maybe don’t have it all figured out, it’s OK. That’s the same chair that I sat in. Enjoy the process of your search without succumbing to the pressure of the result. Trust your gut, keep throwing darts at the dartboard. Don’t listen to the critics and you will figure it out.” –Will Ferrell
“The trick is to listen to your instinct, grab the opportunity when it presents itself and then give it your all. You will stumble and fall, you will experience both disaster and triumph, sometimes in the same day, but it’s really important to remember that like a hangover, neither triumphs nor disasters last forever. They both pass and a new day arrives. Just try to make that new day count.”–Helen Mirren
“Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don’t miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.”–Jessica Lange
“You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.”–Kumail Nanjiani
“Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.”–Oprah Winfrey
“I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.”–Maya Angelou
“The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give into peer pressure to try to be something that you’re not.”–Ellen DeGeneres
“Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.”–Ed Helms
“You will be so many things, and the one thing that I wish I’d known and want to say is, don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.”–Joss Whedon
“I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. You’ve got to take risks. You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it. Never be discouraged. Never look back. Give everything you’ve got. And when you fall throughout life, fall forward.”–Denzel Washington