Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

- Carnegie, Dale

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Gratton, Henry

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Ford, John

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

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

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Wayne, John

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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

Sarton, May

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Horace

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

Benny, Jack

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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

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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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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

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

Homer

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

Walters, Lily

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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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It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Saying

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I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

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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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Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.