Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Claudius

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carnegie, Dale

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

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

Pinter, Harold

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Ford, John

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walters, Lily

13.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

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

Gratton, Henry

23.

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

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

Ogden, Tom

25.

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

Saying

26.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

27.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

28.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Mescon, Micheal

30.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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

32.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Taft, William Howard

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

Horace

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

41.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wayne, John

43.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston