Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ford, John

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

Wayne, John

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Madden, John

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Benny, Jack

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gratton, Henry

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Homer

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