Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Wayne, John

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Wayne, John

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

White, R. S.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Humes, James

10.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Horace

14.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

White, Somers

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

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

Homer

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

Archbold, Ralph

20.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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

23.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

26.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

27.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

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

Bible

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

Pinter, Harold

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