Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Claudius

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Orben, Robert

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

Pinter, Harold

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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Rogers, Will

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

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

Wayne, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Plutarch

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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sarton, May

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin