Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Witherspoon

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Horace

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Taft, William Howard

10.

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

Plutarch

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

12.

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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Ford, John

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

Benny, Jack

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gardner, Herbert

26.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

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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

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Humes, James

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Wayne, John

43.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

44.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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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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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von