Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Churchill, Winston

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Humes, James

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

Billings, Josh

10.

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

11.

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

Proverb, Italian

12.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

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

Bible

14.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Madden, John

18.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

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

Horace

20.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Gratton, Henry

25.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

28.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Archbold, Ralph

30.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

35.

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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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

41.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai 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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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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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

47.

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

Ford, John

48.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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