Top 1200 Inspirational Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.

If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Every argument that Margaret Thatcher ever made internationally didn't have a great deal to do with her contempt for Communism - she never really got into that. What she talked about was giving freedom to tens of millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe. She was an inspirational leader when it came to discussing her belief in freedom. More visceral and moral.

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.

I've made my own comments as to our vales as well in a speech I gave to the State Department.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.

Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.

Democrats need to value free speech and we should not be intimidated into giving an inch of it away.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.

My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.

In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

I end every speech the night before a game with, 'Now, let's go get a snack.'

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'