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

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Landers, Ann

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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.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gratton, Henry

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Sarton, May

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Homer

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

Claudius

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Ford, John

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

Pinter, Harold

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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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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Walters, Lily