Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

- Gardner, Herbert

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilde, Oscar

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Beggs, Jim

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Ford, John

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

Osler, Sir William

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Madden, John

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Claudius

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.