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

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

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

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

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

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Gratton, Henry

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

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

Madden, John

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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There are three things to aim at in public speaking: First to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers.

Gregg

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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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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

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Ford, John

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Osler, Sir William

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If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

22.

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

Walters, Lily

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

27.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Plutarch

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Benny, Jack

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, Italian

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think