Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Walters, Lily

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

White, Somers

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

Humes, James

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

Saying

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Archbold, Ralph

10.

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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

Pascal, Blaise

14.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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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

16.

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

Jonson, Ben

17.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Witherspoon

20.

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

Beggs, Jim

21.

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

Gardner, Herbert

22.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

White, R. S.

25.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Claudius

28.

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

Walters, Lily

29.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

33.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

34.

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

Homer

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

Sarton, May

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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.

38.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

41.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

42.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

43.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.