Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

- Proverb, Arabian

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Benny, Jack

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

Landers, Ann

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

Homer

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

Jonson, Ben

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

White, R. S.

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Carnegie, Dale

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Bible

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Billings, Josh

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

32.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert