Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Saying

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wayne, John

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Gratton, Henry

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

19.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

20.

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

Plutarch

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

Orben, Robert

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

White, Somers

27.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

28.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Rogers, Will

31.

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

Walters, Lily

32.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

34.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ford, John

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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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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