Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Landers, Ann

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Billings, Josh

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Claudius

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Horace

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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Phelps, C. C.

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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

Osler, Sir William

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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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.

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Benny, Jack

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

34.

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Witherspoon

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

Rogers, Will

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Homer

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

Wayne, John

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

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

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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