Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- White, R. S.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

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

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Osler, Sir William

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

12.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Benny, Jack

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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 people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Bible

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

Saying

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Humes, James

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

Plutarch

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A closed mouth catches no flies.