Speak Less Quotes

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

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

For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

He who talks much cannot talk well.

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.

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

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

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

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.