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

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Wayne, John

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

Saying

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

10.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Landers, Ann

12.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Homer

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

Claudius

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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

20.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

21.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Taft, William Howard

23.

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

Walters, Lily

24.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

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

Pinter, Harold

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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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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Benny, Jack

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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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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

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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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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

39.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

42.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

44.

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

White, R. S.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rogers, Will