Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Homer

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

White, Somers

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

Osler, Sir William

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Walters, Lily

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Gratton, Henry

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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

Claudius

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sarton, May

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Benny, Jack

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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise