Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Churchill, Winston

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Billings, Josh

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

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

Saying

11.

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

Claudius

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

Pinter, Harold

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

White, Somers

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Archbold, Ralph

22.

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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

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

Horace

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

Osler, Sir William

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walters, Lily

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.