Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Horace

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Archbold, Ralph

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

10.

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

11.

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

Benny, Jack

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

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

White, Somers

19.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

Plutarch

21.

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

Ford, John

22.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

23.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

27.

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

Sarton, May

28.

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

29.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Wayne, John

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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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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

38.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Gratton, Henry

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.