WISE QUOTATIONS

Hi, everyone!

On our Course of Public Speaking we were to accomplish several tasks, which I want to share with you.

In the task #5 we had to match the two halves of the quotations.

1. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809– 1892)

2. Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)

3. Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

4. I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli! – George H W Bush (1924–)

5. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world except take exercise, get up early or be respectable. – Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

6. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug known to mankind. – Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

7. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. – Martin Luther King, Jr (1929–1968)

8. My one regret in life is that I’m not someone else. – Woody Allen (1935)

9. I never think of the future  It comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

10. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember I do and I understand. – Confucius (551–479 BC)

I’m going to select two quotations and comment on the usage of it in the introduction.

1.     Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

-         I think this quotation may be used in the introduction of the speech that covers the issue of the importance of actions, which have more value than that of the words.  

2.     Words are, of course, the most powerful drug known to mankind. – Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

-         This quotation is interconnected with the previous one and can be used in the introduction of the speech devoted to the power of words - “Words can kill or cure”.

The task #6 requireв correcting mistakes in the sentences, which are also quotations.

1. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)

2. He who has a “why” to live, can bear with almost any “how”. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

3. Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right. Henry Ford (1863–1947)

4. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required. Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

5. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite. Paul Dirac (1902–1984)

6. I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

7. Be nice to people on your way up, because you meet them on your way down. Jimmy Durante (1893–1980)

8. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

I chose one quotation to demonstrate how it can be used in the body of the speech:

“He who has a “why” to live, can bear with almost any “how””. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

If you have a sense of life, if you know and realize what you are living for, you will go all the way through to achieve your goal or state. You will be determined about your path, and all the obstacles of “how” will not change your way back.

I enjoyed reading these wise people’s quotations. Each of them makes you get deeper into your thoughts and reconsider some of your vital values.

Which of them is your favorite? Share your opinion in the comments!