Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

- Twain, Mark

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Madden, John

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

Homer

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Plutarch

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Jonson, Ben

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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

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Carnegie, Dale

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

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.

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

White, Somers

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

Benny, Jack

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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