Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

- Pascal, Blaise

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb, Italian

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Wilde, Oscar

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Taft, William Howard

10.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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

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

13.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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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

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

20.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Saying

22.

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

Walters, Lily

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Benny, Jack

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

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

Ford, John

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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.

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

38.

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

Bible

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

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

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Homer

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

Sarton, May

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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.

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

Rogers, Will