Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

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

Booher, Dianna

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.

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

Horace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Wayne, John

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Benny, Jack

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

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

Rogers, Will

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

Saying

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

Proverb, French

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mescon, Micheal

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