Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Coke, Sir Edward

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Billings, Josh

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Sarton, May

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

Claudius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Benny, Jack

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plutarch

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Wayne, John

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Humes, James

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

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Landers, Ann

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gardner, Herbert

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.