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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sarton, May

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Madden, John

10.

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

Horace

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

Homer

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

White, Somers

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gratton, Henry

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Bible

28.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Ford, John

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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.