Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Billings, Josh

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gratton, Henry

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Walters, Lily

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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.

Proverb, French

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

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Saying

41.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Taft, William Howard

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

Orben, Robert

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

Benny, Jack

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.