Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

- Homer

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Madden, John

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Landers, Ann

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

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

20.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

23.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Walters, Lily

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

Claudius

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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What is uttered is finished and done with.