Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

- Samuel, Herbert

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Proverb, Chinese

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

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

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Plutarch

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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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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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

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

White, Somers

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Saying

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