Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

- Ford, John

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Carnegie, Dale

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Homer

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

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

Plutarch

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Booher, Dianna

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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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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Ford, John

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Walters, Lily

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

White, R. S.

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Benny, Jack

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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