Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Rogers, Will

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

White, Somers

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Witherspoon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Benny, Jack

14.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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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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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

18.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

19.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

20.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Gardner, Herbert

24.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

25.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

26.

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

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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 smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

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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

30.

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

Osler, Sir William

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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