Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Saying

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

Witherspoon

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bible

10.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

19.

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

Humes, James

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar