Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

- Churchill, Winston

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Ford, John

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Booher, Dianna

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

10.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

White, Somers

12.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

16.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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.

24.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Claudius

28.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

35.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Rogers, Will

37.

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

Madden, John

38.

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

Sarton, May

39.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

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

Bible

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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

43.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

44.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

46.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

47.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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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