Control Your Tongue Quotes

#1. It takes at least ten years for a child to learn to coordinate lips, tongue, mouth, and breath with the exacting fine motor control that adults use when they talk.

Christine Kenneally

#2. Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop.

G.B. Gordon

#3. Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.

Toni Sorenson

#4. You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it under the control of God's Spirit and make it an instrument of blessing and praise.

Billy Graham

#5. For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.

Kelis

#6. The spirit of service is the heart of humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. The apostle James tells us that a man who can control his tongue can control the rest of his body as well. This goes double for the man who is putting what the tongue does into a more permanent setting.

Douglas Wilson

#8. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#9. In the land you come from, you call us your conscience. In the land of Oomaldee, they call us innerus. Both consciences and innerus hail from the same species of innerbeings; we've always had a symbiotic relationship with humans.

L.R.W. Lee

#10. If you cannot at first control your anger, learn to control your tongue, which, like fire, is a good servant, but a hard master.

Orison Swett Marden

#11. Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

Pope Clement I

#12. A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

Kabir

#13. Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#14. He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.

John Corey Whaley

#15. Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She had to write, it was the only thing that was completely hers, that she could look forward to at the end of her long day.

Bernice L. McFadden

#16. Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

Annie Besant

#17. For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

William Shakespeare

#18. Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

Piers Anthony

#19. There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

Pete Seeger

#20. I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.

Paul Smoker

#21. Only a sense of lightness, giddy and dizzying, like flight - of a burden that didn't belong to me being lifted.
Suddenly I knew the truth and the lights surrounding me exploded.
I am free.

Andrea Cremer

#22. You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Bob Dylan

#23. Fear,' he whispered. 'There is nothing quite like it. I love how it looks, I love how it feels, I love how it smells. And I especially love the sound of it.' I felt his tongue on my cheek. 'I even love the taste of it

B.A. Paris

#24. Love is loyalty and without love then there are no trusts.

Boss

#25. You must learn to control the filth of your tongue, my son. It will send you to hell.

James Clavell

#26. Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.

Sivananda

#27. The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

Max Muller

#28. The Bible teaches that a man who can control his tongue can control his whole personality.

Billy Graham

#29. No matter how powerful you are, if dharm is not on your side, you will lose

Rohit Omar

#30. He tucks me in and says good night but I catch his hand and hold him there. A side effect of the sleep syrup is that it makes people less inhibited, like white liquor, and I know I have to control my tongue.

Suzanne Collins

#31. A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of
his mind.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#32. All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Bertrand Russell

#33. The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.

Richelle E. Goodrich