Speak Less Quotations

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.

Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

Speak less but act more.

For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest ...

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.