Quotes on Think Before You Speak

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'_x000D_ _x000D_ 'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently._x000D_ _x000D_ 'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

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

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.

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

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

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