Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Speak little and to the purpose.

- Proverb

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Landers, Ann

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ford, John

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

Claudius

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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 what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Homer

14.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Booher, Dianna

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

18.

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

Taft, William Howard

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Archbold, Ralph

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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

23.

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

Beggs, Jim

24.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

25.

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

Walters, Lily

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Plutarch

28.

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

29.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

30.

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

Orben, Robert

31.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

White, R. S.

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

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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.

42.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Phillips, H. L.

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.