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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Walters, Lily

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

10.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

11.

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

Sarton, May

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Claudius

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

Horace

22.

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

23.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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

26.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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

29.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

31.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

34.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Taft, William Howard

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

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

Homer

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Bible

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Beggs, Jim