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

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

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

Wilde, Oscar

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

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

White, Somers

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Witherspoon

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Saying

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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gratton, Henry

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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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

Proverb, French

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Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard

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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.