Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Archbold, Ralph

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Horace

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

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

Archbold, Ralph

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

14.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Walters, Lily

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

Ford, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles 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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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Sarton, May

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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 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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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jonson, Ben

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