Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Rogers, Will

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Phelps, C. C.

11.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Wayne, John

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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sarton, May

25.

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

Osler, Sir William

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

30.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

31.

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

Ford, John

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Phillips, H. L.

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

40.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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