Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Gardner, Herbert

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Sarton, May

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Walters, Lily

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

Mescon, Micheal

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Gratton, Henry

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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

Landers, Ann

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Billings, Josh

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Taft, William Howard

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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.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Benny, Jack

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

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

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.