Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

- Hazlitt, William

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Taft, William Howard

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Osler, Sir William

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Benny, Jack

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

Ford, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

10.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Pinter, Harold

17.

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

Sarton, May

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Gratton, Henry

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

25.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gardner, Herbert

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mescon, Micheal

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

White, R. S.

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

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

Wayne, John

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Booher, Dianna

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.