Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

What is uttered is finished and done with.

- Mann, Thomas

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Horace

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Rogers, Will

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

Ogden, Tom

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What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Taft, William Howard

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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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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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Sarton, May

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent