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 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.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Archbold, Ralph

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wayne, John

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

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

White, Somers

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Claudius

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

37.

There are three things to aim at in public speaking: First to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers.

Gregg

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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 me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert