Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Madden, John

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Benny, Jack

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Plutarch

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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wayne, John

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Horace

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Witherspoon

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The less people think the more they talk.

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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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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