Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

- Mirabeau, Comte De

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Rogers, Will

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ford, John

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

White, Somers

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

Coke, Sir Edward

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Benny, Jack

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Plutarch

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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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