Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

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Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Orben, Robert

Too many of us speak twice before we think

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

10.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

14.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Taft, William Howard

18.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

19.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Wayne, John

21.

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Gratton, Henry

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

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Claudius

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Homer

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

Walters, Lily

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

Landers, Ann

32.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

33.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

34.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

37.

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

Pinter, Harold

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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

42.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

43.

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

Sarton, May

46.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin