Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

What is uttered is finished and done with.

- Mann, Thomas

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

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

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Too many of us speak twice before we think

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Archbold, Ralph

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Wayne, John

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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Landers, Ann

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Bible

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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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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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

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

Benny, Jack

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Ford, John

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

Osler, Sir William

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

Plutarch

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

White, Somers

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

Horace

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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