Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

- Proverb, German

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Ford, John

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Mescon, Micheal

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Sarton, May

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Benny, Jack

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

Beggs, Jim

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Plutarch

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Claudius

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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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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Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Witherspoon