Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

- Twain, Mark

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Rogers, Will

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

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

Billings, Josh

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Plutarch

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Gardner, Herbert

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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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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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Bible

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

White, Somers

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

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Humes, James

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