Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Mescon, Micheal

11.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Horace

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

22.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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

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

White, R. S.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Homer

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

Bible

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

Saying

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

Gratton, Henry

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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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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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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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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert