Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

- Proverb, Spanish

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Proverb, Italian

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sarton, May

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Saying

10.

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

11.

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

Taft, William Howard

12.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

Wayne, John

19.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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

Homer

24.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

26.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

28.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

32.

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

Phillips, H. L.

33.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

34.

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

Gratton, Henry

35.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

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

Booher, Dianna

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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.

42.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

44.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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.

47.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery