Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Gratton, Henry

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gratton, Henry

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Benny, Jack

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Madden, John

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

White, Somers

24.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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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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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Taft, William Howard

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

Proverb, French

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

Plutarch

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Bible

43.

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

Homer

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wayne, John

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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