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

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

Plutarch

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

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Orben, Robert

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

Walters, Lily

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Benny, Jack

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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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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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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What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rogers, Will

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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

24.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wayne, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Claudius

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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Speak little and to the purpose.