Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Taft, William Howard

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Landers, Ann

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

Walters, Lily

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

14.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

17.

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

Horace

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

Carnegie, Dale

19.

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

White, Somers

20.

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

21.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

22.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

24.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

25.

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

26.

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

Madden, John

27.

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

Plutarch

28.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

30.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

31.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

33.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Gardner, Herbert

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.

Chesterfield, Lord

40.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Wayne, John

43.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

44.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

45.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Archbold, Ralph

47.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

49.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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