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

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Walters, Lily

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.

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

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wayne, John

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

Benny, Jack

17.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

18.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

19.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

25.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ogden, Tom

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Plutarch

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

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

38.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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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

41.

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

Sarton, May

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

White, R. S.

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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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