Question

speech on keep your words

Answer 1

“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary,
how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows
how to combine them.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

 
There are a number of ways we measure a person’s worth or our own worth. Perhaps none other evokes as much emotion as “keeping your word.”

Words hold immense power and emotion for us. In the right/wrong hand, they can start or squash a war! They can win the hearts and minds of people to a cause, or send somebody crashing to the depths of despair.

We use words to describe physical ‘things’ we can both see and touch.

The physical world you now see at one time didn’t have labels, but people like you and me began to label these “things” to communicate. Somebody had ideas and thoughts around the “things” and called them by sounds to begin simple language to share… to communicate.

Someone thought about a “thing“, words were spoken, and eventually items, buildings, cities, etc. were built.

Now that’s some pretty powerful stuff! And it all came about by the power of words.

But words are not only powerful… there’re also… important.

There’s two concepts of the importance of words I want to touch on in this resource. One is “keeping your word to others” and maybe surprisingly “keeping your word to yourself.”

I want to suggest to you both are effectively two sides of the same coin.