Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

- Jonson, Ben

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

White, R. S.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Orben, Robert

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Taft, William Howard

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

10.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

12.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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.

14.

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

Gardner, Herbert

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

18.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

19.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

22.

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

Proverb, Italian

23.

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.

24.

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

Horace

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

28.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.

Chesterfield, Lord

30.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

32.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

33.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

34.

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

White, Somers

35.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

36.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

37.

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

Rogers, Will

38.

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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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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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

42.

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

Pinter, Harold

43.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

44.

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

Mescon, Micheal

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