Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

- Sophocles

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

White, Somers

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.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Orben, Robert

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pinter, Harold

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Claudius

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Plutarch

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

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

Sarton, May

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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.