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

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

Witherspoon

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.

Walters, Lily

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

Beggs, Jim

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

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Booher, Dianna

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Orben, Robert

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

Pinter, Harold

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

18.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

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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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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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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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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.

42.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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.

46.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.