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

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Walters, Lily

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Madden, John

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plutarch

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Osler, Sir William

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Beggs, Jim