Tongue Control Quotes

If men's minds were as easily controlled as their tongues, every king would sit safely on his throne

Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

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.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.

Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.

I can loop my tongue into multiple rolls.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.