Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

I didn't say the things I said.

- Berra, Yogi

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.

Chesterfield, Lord

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

11.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

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He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

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To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverb, Chinese

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

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Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Wayne, John

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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Coke, Sir Edward

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He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Gratton, Henry

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What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

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Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

Osler, Sir William

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

Churchill, Winston

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Ford, John

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.

Walters, Lily

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

Brooks, Van Wyck