Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

- Proverb, French

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Mescon, Micheal

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Phillips, H. L.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wayne, John

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

Claudius

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

Sarton, May

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.