Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Speak little and to the purpose.

- Proverb

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Landers, Ann

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Ford, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Sarton, May

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Homer

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

White, Somers

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

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

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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 good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Walters, Lily

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

Bible

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence