Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Bible

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Ford, John

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard

10.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

14.

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

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

17.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

18.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

White, R. S.

20.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

24.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

25.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

26.

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

Walters, Lily

27.

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

Witherspoon

28.

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Gardner, Herbert

30.

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

Jonson, Ben

31.

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

Beggs, Jim

32.

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

Gratton, Henry

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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

34.

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

35.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Benny, Jack

37.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Homer

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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

42.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Humes, James

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

46.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

49.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

50.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery