Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Taft, William Howard

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.

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.

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

Orben, Robert

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Horace

12.

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

17.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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.

19.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

21.

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

Sarton, May

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

Walters, Lily

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

26.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

27.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

28.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

33.

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

Madden, John

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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

37.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

38.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Saying

43.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

44.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Witherspoon