Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Speak little and to the purpose.

- Proverb

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

White, R. S.

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

Plutarch

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

Osler, Sir William

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Wilde, Oscar

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

10.

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

Horace

11.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

15.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

16.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Saying

18.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

19.

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

Claudius

20.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

21.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

22.

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

23.

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

Sarton, May

24.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

There are three things to aim at in public speaking: First to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers.

Gregg

27.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

28.

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

Gardner, Herbert

29.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

30.

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

Jonson, Ben

31.

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

32.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

33.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

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

Coke, Sir Edward

38.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

39.

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

Witherspoon

40.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

41.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

43.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

44.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

45.

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

47.

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

48.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

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