Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Phillips, H. L.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Osler, Sir William

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Homer

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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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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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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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wayne, John

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Plutarch

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

Ford, John

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Too many of us speak twice before we think