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

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Orben, Robert

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Benny, Jack

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

10.

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

11.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

18.

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

Bible

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I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Homer

23.

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

Taft, William Howard

24.

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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The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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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

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rogers, Will

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

38.

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

White, R. S.

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

Witherspoon

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

Coke, Sir Edward

43.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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The less people think the more they talk.