Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

- Proverb, Greek

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Rogers, Will

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Gratton, Henry

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Plutarch

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Benny, Jack

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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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Italian

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What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Wayne, John

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

Ford, John

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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