Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

- Hightower, Cullen

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Madden, John

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Homer

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Booher, Dianna

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Rogers, Will

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Montesquieu, Charles 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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Sarton, May

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Ford, John

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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