Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

- Pinter, Harold

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Witherspoon

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Bible

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Archbold, Ralph

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

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

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

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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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Horace

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Rogers, Will

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Plutarch

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

Saying

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Walters, Lily

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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What is uttered is finished and done with.