Positive Speech Quotes

#1. Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Abraham Cahan

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

Michael Franti

#4. Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film.

William Gibson

#6. I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready.

Charles Bukowski

#7. Watching gardeners label their plants
I vow with all beings
to practice the old horticulture
and let plants identify me.

Robert Aitken

#8. Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect.

Michael Chabon

#9. We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is ... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.

Sam Harris

#10. Be assertive, in speech and in conduct.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. When you have the grace speak, declare sacred-utterances.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Imagine the righteous dismay when Ann arrived. She got slapped with some family name - didn't even get the extra e to ornament it a bit.

Gillian Flynn

#13. Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free speech absolutists were unchastened.

Garry Trudeau

#14. Any good thing will be ruined by talking negatively about it; similarly bad thing will improve by speaking positive about it.

Dada Bhagwan

#15. When God was creating heaven and earth, and there came what seemed like a problem: darkness and formlessness, He did not talk problem, instead, He spoke solution: 'And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light'. May we instead of making problems our speech, think and speak solutions!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#16. Voices in the study of positive psychology, framed the traits as hope, wisdom, creativity, future-mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance. V. Paraphrased from a speech given by Bruce Springsteen

Martin Dugard