Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Better never begin than never make an end.

- Herbert, George

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Claudius

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.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

11.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Saying

13.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

17.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

18.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

25.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

26.

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

27.

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

Booher, Dianna

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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.

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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

Horace

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

Orben, Robert

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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

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What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Taft, William Howard

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

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

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

Wayne, John

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There are three things to aim at in public speaking: First to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers.

Gregg

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Too many of us speak twice before we think