Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

- Hightower, Cullen

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Claudius

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Wayne, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Landers, Ann

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

Ford, John

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

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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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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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Gratton, Henry

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Taft, William Howard

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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

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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

White, Somers

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas