Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Saying

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Horace

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

A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

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

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Ford, John

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

Gardner, Herbert

10.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

11.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

12.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

22.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Plutarch

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

White, Somers

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

Claudius

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

Archbold, Ralph

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

32.

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

Jonson, Ben

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A good speaker makes a good liar.