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Speakers and speaking

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

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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

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wayne, John

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Osler, Sir William

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Benny, Jack

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

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

Archbold, Ralph

11.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Carnegie, Dale

14.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

15.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

16.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

17.

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

18.

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

Booher, Dianna

19.

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

20.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

23.

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

24.

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

25.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

26.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

28.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

29.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

30.

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

Gardner, Herbert

31.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

Claudius

34.

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

Sarton, May

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

37.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

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

Horace

39.

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

Gratton, Henry

40.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

41.

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

Pascal, Blaise

42.

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.

43.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Homer

45.

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

46.

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

Proverb, Italian

47.

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

48.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Witherspoon

50.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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