Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Speak little and to the purpose.

- Proverb

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wayne, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Rogers, Will

10.

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

Ford, John

11.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Witherspoon

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

Benny, Jack

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

Osler, Sir William

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

28.

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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

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

Bible

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Homer

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

40.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Saying

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Claudius

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

Wilde, Oscar