Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Proverb, Italian

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Billings, Josh

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Madden, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wayne, John

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

White, Somers

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Gardner, Herbert

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Homer

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

Sarton, May

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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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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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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

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

Plutarch

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Walters, Lily

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