Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

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

Ford, John

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Pilgrim, Peace

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walters, Lily

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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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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Homer

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

20.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

21.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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.

29.

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

Horace

30.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

31.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Landers, Ann

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Benny, Jack

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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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.