Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Ford, John

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Mescon, Micheal

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

10.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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 should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Booher, Dianna

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wayne, John

18.

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

19.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

21.

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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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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 is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

27.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

White, Somers

29.

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

Humes, James

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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

31.

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

Gardner, Herbert

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Saying

35.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

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

Sarton, May

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Walters, Lily

47.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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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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