Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Benny, Jack

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Jonson, Ben

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Wayne, John

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

Sarton, May

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

Osler, Sir William

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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

11.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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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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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Beggs, Jim

17.

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 know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Landers, Ann

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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.

22.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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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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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

25.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Walters, Lily

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Booher, Dianna

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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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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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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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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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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