Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

- Sophocles

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Witherspoon

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

10.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Bible

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

Homer

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gardner, Herbert

25.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Saying

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Benny, Jack

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sarton, May

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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

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

White, Somers

42.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Orben, Robert

46.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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