Top 100 Quotes About What You Say
#1. This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.
Lee DeWyze
#2. The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.
Sandra Cisneros
#3. Your value is nothing if you cannot honor your word. If you do not mean what you say, you are the most mean person on the Earth.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#4. Your words are very powerful and what you say matters; keep them positive and powerful.
Farshad Asl
#5. If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.
Kesha
#6. Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.
Maya Angelou
#8. It's so funny because no matter what you say, fans only read and hear what they want.
Tommy Lee
#9. When you are living your life according to your values, you are being true to yourself and others. There is congruence between what you think, what you say, and what you do.
Ruthann M. Wilson
#10. Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#11. Well, all right. Something in what you say, I suppose. Consider you treacherous worm and contemptible, spineless cowardly custard, but have booked Spink-Bottle. Stay where you are, then, and I hope you get run over by an omnibus. Love. Travers
P.G. Wodehouse
#12. What you say can haunt you; what you do not has no power over you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#13. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. Tallentyre
#14. Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Horace
#15. You want to be the one that people piclk up the paper in the morning to see what you say.
Gary Myers
#16. If what you wear says more about who you are then what you say when you speak, then my advice is to keep quiet and wear loud clothing.
Jarod Kintz
#17. If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#18. Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to create that kind of trust is by laying out your values and then walking the talk. You've got to do what you say you'll do, consistently, over time.
Jack Welch
#19. Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.
Marjane Satrapi
#20. No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'
Whoopi Goldberg
#21. Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.
Viola Davis
#22. It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man,
to forget what you've said, as I forget it," she said at last.
"Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever
forget ...
Leo Tolstoy
#23. Honestly, if everyone likes what you say something is wrong with your message.
Ashley Ormon
#24. Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#25. What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say.
Anonymous
Mike Addington
#27. Write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
Isabel Allende
#28. What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
David Ogilvy
#29. Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
Jimmy Fallon
#30. You must guard your mouth, because no matter what you say, you are launching weapons of one sort or another.
Terry Law
#31. The hallmark of a free society is that I may totally disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it until I die.
Voltaire
#32. I'm a lightweight better be careful what you say
With every word I'm blown away
You're in control of my heart
Demi Lovato
#33. Defending yourself is not the same as offending your enemy. Watch what you say.
Holly Chamberlin
#34. It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.
W.C. Fields
#35. The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.
Ciara
#36. Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.
Loretta Lynch
#37. If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#38. Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
Frank Zappa
#39. You won't have to watch what you say if you watch what you think.
Bill Johnson
#40. I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
Richard M. Nixon
#41. Be very careful what you say. Daddy's being very strange about pussies at the moment.' Orla
Carole Matthews
#42. The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
Paul Merton
#43. Pounce if I'm outta some arbitrary line, Specter, but from what you say this demilout's runnin' hogwild over creation with no better motive than a gratuitous and luxurious will to do evil.
Steve Aylett
#44. Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
Zara Phillips
#45. To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right,
Andrej Pejic
#46. Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.
Jim George
#48. There are many kinds of sincerity and insincerity. When you say 'thank you' for the salt, do you mean what you say ? No. When you say 'the world is round,' do you mean what you say ? No. It is true, but you don't mean it
G.K. Chesterton
#49. Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening ... YOU!
John Assaraf
#51. Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.
Dave Attell
#52. Love. Sometimes it's not what you say. It's what you do and how you make one feel without the use of words. Sometimes words confirm your actions and cause a reaction without the use words.
Carla Gipson Lizana
#53. As I met more and more people, I soon figured out it's not what you think, it's the way that you think it; it's not what you say, it's the way that you say it; and it's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.
Nicholas Boothman
#54. You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say
Martin Luther
#55. The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?
Stephen Colbert
#56. I hate the word fine. It is descriptive of nothing. Socially acceptable filler with no true meaning. It's what you say when you are checking your feelings, unwilling or unable to let yourself be too happy or too sad. Fine. It's an emotional bookmark. A pause until you can continue the story.
Emme Burton
#57. Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#59. Everyone is allowed to have their own boundaries. You just are. No matter how you dress, no matter what you say or anything, and I feel strongly about that.
Amy Schumer
#60. What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.
Jennifer Stone
#61. Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what you say today has the capacity to transform the countenance and the character of the most important person in your life, your spouse.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#62. No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.
Garth Brooks
#63. Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.
Denis Waitley
#65. You are master of what you say until you utter it, once you deliver it, you are its captive. Preserve your tongue as you do your gold and money. One word could bring disgrace and the termination of a bliss.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#66. I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
Davy Jones
#67. What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read." Romulus thumps his chest. "Honor is what you do.
Pierce Brown
#68. Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.
Agatha Christie
#69. The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.
Christopher Paolini
#70. I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.
Augustus De Morgan
#71. See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They're taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.
Joel Osteen
#72. You are in obscurity when you are still needed but no one cares a lot what you say or think, or even where you are working from. You have no voice or presence that makes you relevant. Grow your voice.
Archibald Marwizi
#73. Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.
Justin Trudeau
#74. You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.
David Alan Basche
#76. Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.
Hoda Kotb
#77. Sure, Mom.
They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it comes out ugly.
A.S. King
#78. Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.
Dalai Lama
#79. You love me," he said. "That's all I need to know."
"You always say the right thing," Savannah told him, her eyes so filled with love that he almost wept. "Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.
Suzanne Brockmann
#80. It doesn't matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Robert Fulghum
#81. It is by no means your past that determines or dictates your present or your future; it is what you think and what you say, which then results in what you feel and what you do.
Miya Yamanouchi
#82. What is heard and how it is heard is more important than what you say.
Jason Scott Lee
#83. I think the whole concept behind lyrics is you better mean what you say, or you should like, become a storyteller. I mean, there's a lot of bands who are just storytellers, and then there are bands who actually have something valid to say. And the bands who have valid points are few and far between.
Kirk Hammett
#84. You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify
Stephen King
#85. It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.
Frederick Lenz
#86. The 'difference' = What you say you'll do - what you actually do
George Akomas Jr
#87. What you say should not just be truth now, but should be a proven truth tomorrow.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#88. It's not what you say, but what you do that defines your individuality
Shayan Italia
#90. I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend.
Sarah J. Maas
#91. Here is a truism. What you say about yourself matters very little, but what others say of you means the world.
Hugh Halter
#92. Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
Ai Weiwei
#93. Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.
Randy Lerner
#94. You might not be what you say you are, but what you say, you are.
Zig Ziglar
#95. Believe it in your heart; say it with your mouth. That is the principle of faith. You can have what you say.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#96. Maybe it's easier to talk to someone who won't ever actually hear what you say.
Ali Smith
#97. What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#98. Be careful with what you say next." Daemon's voice was low but carried. "Because what you don't know and what you cant possibly understand will get a bolt of light in your face.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#99. You've got to say what you say / Don't let anybody get in your way
Noel Gallagher
#100. Anthony once told me: It isn't what you say to people, it's more important what you do with them. It's less important what you do with them than the way you're with them.
Amanda Palmer
