Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Ogden, Tom

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Bible

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Plutarch

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Mescon, Micheal

11.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

White, Somers

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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

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

Ford, John

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

21.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Gratton, Henry

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

Saying

25.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Wayne, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Witherspoon

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

Claudius

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Sarton, May

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German