S Quotes
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“speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. tomorrow comes more brightly...”
“Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!”
“Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations
“SPEAK SLOWLY AND PRECISELY! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU!”
“Speak softly and carry a big stick . . .
This way, for them to hear you, they will need to come close. That's when you hit them with the stick."
~ LJL and Teddy Roosevelt”
Source: Huge Words by Huge People
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
“Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.”
Source: Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)
“Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.”
“Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.”
“Speak sooner to sweet spot of shared interest to cultivate a meaningful connection, first step to creating something greater together.
Share the story in which others see a role they want to play so they’ll re- share it to make it “our” story
Whoever most vividly characterizes a situation usually determines how others see it, talk about it, and make decisions about it”
Source: Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
“Speak success into existence.”
“Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.”
“Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Speak the essence and live by it.”
“Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God.”
“Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Speak the language of the person you want to become.”
Source: The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
“Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Speak the right words to the right people. Use your words as tools to enhance an optimistic worldview”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.”
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.”
“Speak the truth, and speak it well. Allow your words to wield a powerful influence. When you speak truthful words and honour them, you will live a life of contentment.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.”
“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
“Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can.
Never be angry.
These three steps will lead you
Into the presence of the gods.”
“Speak the truth.
Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently,
and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power.
Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence.
All growth is not good.
The environment is a necessity, not a luxury.
There is such a thing as enough.”
“Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.”
“Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.”
“Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.”
Source: A diary of private prayer
“Speak, thou vast and venerable head,” muttered Ahab, “which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world’s foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home. Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor’s side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down. Thou saw’st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. Thou saw’st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed — while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms. O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not shut them out from your world; lest in isolation the meaning of life slips out of sight and you lose the belief in the perfection of creation.”
“Speak to God about your situation.”
“Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.”
“Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.”
“Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.”
Source: Tragedies. Poems
“Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With such black woe?
My dam is buried deep
Dark are my father's halls
And carrion fowl and wolves now keep
Their ruined walls
From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh”
Source: The Naming
“Speak to me: I will spend my lifetime trying to understand you.”
“Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching.”
Source: Wait Until Spring, Bandini
“Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me.”
Source: As meat loves salt
“Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac”
“Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.”
Source: Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian's Survival Handbook
“Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!”
“Speak to people in a way that if they died the next day, you’d be satisfied with the last thing you said to them.”
Source: The Art of Inner Peace
“Speak to the breeze cautiously during those lonely summer nights.”
Source: Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
“Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.”
“Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become.”
“Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.”
“Speak to yourself with clarity,
Speak to yourself with confidence,
Speak to yourself with faith and all the intelligence.”