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

Too many of us speak twice before we think

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Saying

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

Madden, John

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Gratton, Henry

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.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Billings, Josh

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

Rogers, Will

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

17.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

19.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

31.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Walters, Lily