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6 Great Quotes About Talking Too Much

6 Great Quotes About Talking Too Much

I have said before you should stop talking.

Here are 6 great quotes about talking too much.

1. “Big words and promises mean nothing; only actions carry weight.”

-Robert Greene and 50 Cent, The 50th Law (Amazon)

2. “God’s Word has strong medicine for those who carelessly wag their tongues. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell (James 3;6). He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity (Proverbs 21:23). He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin (Proverbs 13:3). When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise (Proverbs 10:19).”

-Max Lucado, God Came Near (Amazon)

3. “And that’s what is so insidious about talk . Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are decent at hype and sales. So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.”

-Ryan Holiday, Ego is The Enemy (Amazon)

4. “Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. -Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519”

-Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power (Amazon)

5. “Don’t say things. What you are…thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. -Ralph Waldo Emerson”

-Eric Greitens, Resilience (Amazon)

6. “When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.”

-Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power (Amazon)

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Quotes Related To Friendship, Here Are 8 Great Ones

Quotes Related To Friendship, Here Are 8 Great Ones

Great friends can be one of life’s great joys.

I hope you have 1 or 2.

Few things will serve you better.

1.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

-Aristotle

2.

Someone who cares about you, sweats with you, and corrects you when you need to be corrected is one of the most precious things in life: a true friend.

-Eric Greitens, Resilience (Amazon)

3.

Life, it turns out, is sort of like summer camp. If you make one really good friend, or meet one really great person, consider yourself blessed.

-Rich Cohen, Remembering Jerry Weintraub

4.

You can die from someone else’s misery—emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

-Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power (Amazon)

5.

When you introduce an old friend to a new friend and they don’t judge each other, or hate each other, but actually like each other – that is one of the greatest pleasures in the world.

-Rich Cohen, Lake Effect (Amazon)

6.

Many times through the years I remember the wonderful moments I had listened to the stories and experiences of Father’s friends. There is a Proverb which says, “Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not” (Proverbs 27:10). I have often thought how wise that is.

-Corrie Ten Boom, In My Father’s House (Amazon)

7.

Share your life with the people you love, even if it means saving up for a ticket and going without a few things for a while to make it work. There are enough long lonely days of the same old thing, and if you let enough years pass, and if you let the routine steamroll your life, you’ll wake up one day, isolated and weary, and wonder what happened to all those old friends. You’ll wonder why all you share is Christmas cards, and why life feels lonely and bone-dry…Because there really is nothing like good friends, like the sounds of their laughter and the tones of their voices and the things they teach us in the quietest, smallest moments.

-Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (Amazon)

8.

John teaches us that the strongest relationship with Christ may not necessarily be a complicated one. He teaches us that the greatest webs of loyalty are spun, not with airtight theologies or foolproof philosophies, but with friendships; stubborn, selfless, joyful friendships.

-Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him Savior (Amazon)

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