Top 100 Quotes About What We Say
#1. What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction.
Marty Rubin
#2. There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie
#3. It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
Pema Chodron
#4. Knowledge is power, isn't that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can't help but be a corrupt institution.
Sam Cabot
#5. Psalm 107:2 says, "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so." The Scriptures tell us that death and life are in the power of our words (Prov. 18:21). Think about that - death and life are released by what we say. Make sure the words you speak are life-producing words. S
Dutch Sheets
#6. There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
Alexander Pope
#7. 14) Ladies, if a guy leaves you a voice mail that says 'I had a good time with you' what he REALLY means is 'I had a good time with you.' Ladies, please stop searching for secret meanings in what we say. We're men; we're not that clever.
Nelson Chereta
#8. Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.
Simon McBurney
#9. Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)
Tucker Max
#10. Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make
Louise Penny
#11. Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#12. We are the Magick
we are. The truest magick in this world is in us ... It is in our movements and in what we say and feel.
Susan Fletcher
#13. In a sense we're all children of God - Jesus is called the one and only Son. Monogeneo is the word, God's only "genetic" child. He bears the very essence of God. What we say about God we say about Jesus. So the promise rises and falls on the identity of Jesus.
Max Lucado
#14. You know what we say in America about people who assume things? That they have two hours to get the fuck out of my apartment.
Courtney Maum
#15. If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
John Lennon
#16. We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness.
Alain De Botton
#17. Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Stephen Covey
#18. What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say
Quentin L. Cook
#19. The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.
Meredith Hall
#20. People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
Max Lucado
#21. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
#22. They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
Nikita Khrushchev
#23. When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.
Cortney S. Warren
#24. To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.
Fulton J. Sheen
#25. I loved him the way the moon loves the stars - that is what we say, when a person fills the world with light.
V.E Schwab
#26. Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present for each other as best we can be.
Anne Lamott
#27. This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars ... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.
Solomon Ortiz
#28. Words are not simply an expression of the self; they help to create the self. In struggling to say what we are, we become what we say.
Thomas S. Kane
#29. Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.
Pema Chodron
#30. Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#32. Living in the moment is great, but there's something uniquely powerful about the contemplative life. I think if we slowed down enough to think about what we say, consider the consequences of our actions and reactions, the world would be a better place.
Nicole Baart
#33. People hear what we say but they see what we do. And seeing is believing.
Al Lucia
#34. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died.
R.J. Palacio
#36. The people who influence and touch us most deeply are those who believe what we say.
Paulo Coelho
#37. What we seem to perceive influences what we feel, and what we feel influences what we say we perceive
Jenefer Robinson
#38. We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.
Gordon Livingston
#39. We develop trust when we show that we are reliable, by doing what we say we are going to do to take care of that treasure, and then stepping it up by doing more, by anticipating problems and handling them before they even happen.
Michele Jennae
#40. What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.
DeForest Soaries
#41. If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.
Paul Washer
#42. Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
#43. If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Honore De Balzac
#44. In the end, our worship is more about what we do than what we say.
Louie Giglio
#45. What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and love. Don't misuse them, Daphne.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#46. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
Niels Bohr
#47. Women must be careful what we say to one another. We are almost all we have.
Andrew Sean Greer
#48. Remember that we remember very little! 10% of what we read or hear 50% of what we hear and see 80% of what we say 90% of what we say while doing For
Imran Umar
#49. We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
Martin Buber
#50. It matters, because everything we say
Of the past is description without place, a cast
Of the imagination, made in sound;
And because what we say of the future must portend,
Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be
Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.
Wallace Stevens
#51. Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W.T. Purkiser
#52. Some things just push a man's buttons. This goes beyond what we say-and into how we say it.
Shaunti Feldhahn
#53. Be careful of what we say or do on this earth as every word and every action has a return.
Aisha Mirza
#54. People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.
Carl Jung
#55. Adopting an attitude of universal responsibility is essentially a personal matter. The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in our daily life.
Dalai Lama XIV
#56. What we say in private we must be willing to say with a heart burning with love and honor before the face of our leaders. If not, we will poison our spirits and it will manifest in the presence of our leaders.
John Bevere
#57. It's not what we say out loud that determines our lives. It's what we whisper to ourselves that has the most power.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#58. What we think often does more to influence the nature of our relationships than what we say or do.
Henry Grayson
#59. What we say we believe makes very little difference until we act on our belief
Joshua Harris
#60. What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#61. The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.
Brenda Ueland
#62. When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.
Rudolf Steiner
#63. We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.
Darren Johnson
#64. Our truest reflection reveals that we are what we think, we are what we say and we are what we continuously do.
Jason Versey
#65. The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it.
Merrit Malloy
#66. What we say or do is unimportant; it is merely semblance, beyond which our real life lies concealed ... We know this better than we can prove, but in order to prove it we have to express it, and on the path to speech the essential somehow gets lost.
Hermann Bahr
#67. Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
Terence McKenna
#68. What we say would not be complete if one word did not cease to exist when it has sounded its constituent parts, so that it can be succeeded by another.
Augustine Of Hippo
#69. What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.
Mother Teresa
#70. Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
Seneca.
#71. It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#72. The truth is what we say it is ... prove to me this desk is not a cow!
Ray S. Jones
#73. We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
David R. Hawkins
#74. If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?
Joshua Ferris
#75. Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
Francois Fenelon
#76. Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself!
Alan Lewis
#77. Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.
Alan Hassenfeld
#78. Before we can teach our children, we must understand and live the principles ourselves. It is vital that the child learn from our example that what we say and what we live are the same.
Dwan J. Young
#79. It is not what we say to each other every day that establishes all the meaning and beauty and truth, it is everything we think before we speak
Tor Norretranders
#80. Love is complicated, and in its best form, it's unspoken. It shows in the things we do, not what we say.
Lisa De Jong
#81. What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
Bell Hooks
#82. Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
Matthew Arnold
#83. It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
Jane Austen
#84. And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well
but 'tis not true!
Matthew Arnold
#85. We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
Hal Holbrook
#86. The way in which we say something is often more important than what we say.
Sydney J. Harris
#87. We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
Emily Dickinson
#89. Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
Alain De Botton
#90. Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.
Mother Teresa
#91. Knowing that salvation is God's work alone should also free us from fear. We no longer have to fear that everything is riding on what we say - that we might miss that "one" opportunity to speak into our children's lives and have their eternal salvation forfeited.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#92. How someone else perceives and understands us depends only 7 percent on what we say, 38 percent on how we say it, and 55 percent on what we are doing when we say it.
Myles Munroe
#93. We get what we say we want, only to discover that what we want doesn't satisfy us to the degree that we expect.
Barry Schwartz
#94. The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love.
Joan Didion
#95. It's not what we say is a priority, but what we actually DO that's a priority.
J.D. Roth
#96. In case after case in the past, there is a kind of Bible-quoting intoxication under the influence of which we religious people lose the ability to distinguish between what God says and what we say God says.
Brian D. McLaren
#97. When talking w/kids its not what we say but how we say it! Think about your tone of voice & non-verbal communication.
When talking to my kids I can get them to listen better by not talking down to them, but talking to them at eyeball level
Kevin Heath
#98. Stating a truth in an emotional way does not make what we say irrational; our beliefs being severed from truth and reality do.
Patty Houser
#99. This is what love comes down to, things that happen and what we say about them.
Don DeLillo
#100. We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
