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For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

Good, Knowledge, Alone

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Fool, Doubt, Thought

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

Success, Failure, Mind

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

Good, Words, Read

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving

Love, Power, Deep

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Courage, Down, Stand

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

Men, Wise, Fools

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

Best, Angry, Regret

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Love, Power, Truth

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Judge, Gossip, Person

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson

Angry, Before, Ten

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

Peace, Live, Knows

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good, Words, Song

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Live, Thinking, Living

Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare

Time, Grow, Seeds

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt

Big, Far, Carry

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Everybody, Ill

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius

Truth, Art, Anger

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem

Past, Person, Black

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Thoughts

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Samuel Ullman

Spiritual, Feelings, Become

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Silence, Night

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.
Michael Jordan

Future, Ball, Crystal

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
Marilyn Monroe

Friend, Fire, Find

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill

Men, Wise, Doubt

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire

Truth, Live, May

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Bernard Meltzer

Yourself, True, Before

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