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

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Madden, John

10.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

11.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

13.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

14.

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

Sarton, May

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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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.

20.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

21.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

22.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Taft, William Howard

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The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

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

Saying

31.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Billings, Josh

40.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.