Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

A good speaker makes a good liar.

- Proverb, German

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Gardner, Herbert

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Phillips, H. L.

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

Billings, Josh

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

Proverb, Italian

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Wayne, John

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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