Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Half wits talk much, but say little.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ogden, Tom

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Walters, Lily

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

Claudius

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Somers

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

Bible

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

17.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

18.

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

Proverb, Italian

19.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

20.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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 that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wayne, John

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

34.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Horace

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.