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

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Ford, John

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

Booher, Dianna

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

White, Somers

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Sarton, May

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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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A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Plutarch

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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

21.

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Horace

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Taft, William Howard

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Humes, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Osler, Sir William

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.