Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Landers, Ann

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

Walters, Lily

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ford, John

10.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

11.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

12.

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

13.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

14.

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Archbold, Ralph

17.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

18.

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

Taft, William Howard

19.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

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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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Beggs, Jim

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

32.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

33.

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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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

35.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Gardner, Herbert