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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sarton, May

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Pascal, Blaise

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

11.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

White, R. S.

17.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

21.

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

Carnegie, Dale

25.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Saying

28.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

White, Somers

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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

31.

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

Horace

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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

33.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.

Chesterfield, Lord

41.

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

Pinter, Harold

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Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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.