Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

A closed mouth catches no flies.

- Proverb, French

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Orben, Robert

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Saying

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

Walters, Lily

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Witherspoon

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

Archbold, Ralph

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Proverb, Italian

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Benny, Jack

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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

44.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

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