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

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

White, Somers

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Plutarch

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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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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Sarton, May

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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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The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

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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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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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 speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Booher, Dianna

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 speakers speak ten minutes too long.