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With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
- Madden, John
Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.
Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.
Phillips, H. L.

2.
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
Proverb, Chinese

3.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Pascal, Blaise

4.
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Claudius

5.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

6.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Franklin, Benjamin

7.
What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Beggs, Jim

8.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Carlyle, Thomas

9.
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Carnegie, Dale

10.
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
Humes, James

11.
A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.
White, Somers

12.
We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
Bible

13.
It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.
Saying

14.
He who does not say too much has too much to say.

15.
There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
Phelps, C. C.

16.
A good speaker makes a good liar.
Proverb, German

17.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.
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

19.
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Gracian, Baltasar

20.
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
Taft, William Howard

21.
The less people think the more they talk.
Proverb

22.
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.
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

24.
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Twain, Mark

25.
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

26.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Proverb, French

27.
Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
Hightower, Cullen

28.
Speak and the man shall be shown.
Proverb

29.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Cicero, Marcus T.

30.
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
Sarton, May

31.
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
Plutarch

32.
We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
Coke, Sir Edward

33.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Channing, William Ellery

34.
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
Proverb, Arabian

35.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Hansen, Mark Victor

36.
Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
Humes, James

37.
Speak little and to the purpose.
Proverb

38.
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
Madden, John

39.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Orben, Robert

41.
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

42.
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Wilde, Oscar

44.
It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Benny, Jack

45.
Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
Witherspoon

46.
He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
Samuel, Herbert

47.
Half wits talk much, but say little.
Franklin, Benjamin

48.
Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Osler, Sir William

49.
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Horace

50.
The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.
Walters, Lily


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