Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Madden, John

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Benny, Jack

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

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

Saying

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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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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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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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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Gratton, Henry

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Horace

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Humes, James

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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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 talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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A closed mouth catches no flies.