Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Pilgrim, Peace

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

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

Madden, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Homer

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Benny, Jack

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Plutarch

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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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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 is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

20.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mescon, Micheal

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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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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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 know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Walters, Lily

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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 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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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