Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Plutarch

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

White, R. S.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sarton, May

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The less people think the more they talk.

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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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Horace

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

Wayne, John

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

29.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.