Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Rogers, Will

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Wayne, John

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Bible

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

Horace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Sarton, May

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

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

Ford, John

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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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Landers, Ann

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

White, Somers

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

Gardner, Herbert

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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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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