Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Claudius

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Saying

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

Coke, Sir Edward

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Madden, John

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wayne, John

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Billings, Josh

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

White, Somers

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Beggs, Jim

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Benny, Jack

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

Witherspoon

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

Humes, James

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