Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Beggs, Jim

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

White, R. S.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Ogden, Tom

10.

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

Walters, Lily

11.

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

Osler, Sir William

12.

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

Proverb, Italian

13.

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Benny, Jack

20.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

21.

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

White, Somers

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horace

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

Coke, Sir Edward

30.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Homer

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

Beggs, Jim

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