Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

- Lewis, Joe E.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Landers, Ann

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Sarton, May

10.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Billings, Josh

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

23.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

30.

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

34.

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

Booher, Dianna

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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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Benny, Jack

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

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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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Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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