Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

- Ogden, Tom

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Italian

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Claudius

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

10.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Horace

18.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Madden, John

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

25.

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

Beggs, Jim

26.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Humes, James

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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

33.

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

34.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

35.

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

Walters, Lily

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

Taft, William Howard

37.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

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

Gratton, Henry

40.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

42.

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

44.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

46.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German