Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

- Carnegie, Dale

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Wayne, John

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

Plutarch

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Madden, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mescon, Micheal

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Ford, John

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

Bible

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gratton, Henry

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Saying

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

Sarton, May

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Archbold, Ralph

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If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

32.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Homer

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Osler, Sir William

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Speak little and to the purpose.