Thiruvalluvar Quotes

Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

He also knows the power of word.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

But words are more powerful than anything.

I think I have to be aware of how much power words can have. And it makes me consider everything that I say before I say it, because you can really help a lot of people, or you can really, really mess things up.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.