Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Ford, John

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewis, Joe E.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ford, John

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

Ogden, Tom

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Saying

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Humes, James

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sarton, May

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benny, Jack

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard