Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Proverb, Italian

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Walters, Lily

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Lewis, Joe E.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ford, John

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Homer

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Humes, James

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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

27.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Proverb, Italian

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

White, Somers

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

Archbold, Ralph

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wayne, John

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

41.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Plutarch

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

Gracian, Baltasar