Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Half wits talk much, but say little.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Walters, Lily

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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

Bible

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

White, Somers

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wayne, John

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

Billings, Josh

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Ford, John

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

Beggs, Jim

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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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Archbold, Ralph

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Humes, James

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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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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 good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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

Taft, William Howard

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.