Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ford, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

White, Somers

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Benny, Jack

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

Bible

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

Madden, John

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Walters, Lily

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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 nothing to say, say nothing.