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

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

Pinter, Harold

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wayne, John

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Churchill, Winston

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb, Italian

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

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

Beggs, Jim

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Walters, Lily

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

Humes, James

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

Gratton, Henry

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Homer

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Osler, Sir William

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bible

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

Benny, Jack

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.