Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Walters, Lily

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Saying

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Wayne, John

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Madden, John

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.

10.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

White, Somers

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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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Benny, Jack

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Orben, Robert

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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Ford, John

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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

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

Claudius

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.