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I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.
Sep 17, 2025
Think before you speak. Think before you judge. Think before you think you have a person all figured out.
Think before you speak. Spend less than what you make. And whatever happens, try to make the best of what's going on.
Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.
Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right.
Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
You are meant to think before you speak. How many times is your heart involved in what you are doing? Every act should be a spiritual one involving your total being - soul, mind and body - done for the sake of the doing, given for the sake of the giving, worked for the sake of the working, not for the sake of what you can get out of it. The more you do this, uniting all the aspects of your being, the more you will create harmony, balance and peace.
Think before you speak, your words could hurt someone's feeling more than you intended it to.
THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?
Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.' 'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently. '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 power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth.
A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
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.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.
It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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