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

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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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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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Walters, Lily

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There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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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 people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Wayne, John

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

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

Jonson, Ben

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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Osler, Sir William

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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