Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

- Osler, Sir William

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

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

Claudius

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plutarch

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

Beggs, Jim

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Humes, James

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

Ford, John

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

Gardner, Herbert

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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 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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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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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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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A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

Osler, Sir William