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

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.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Pascal, Blaise

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Carnegie, Dale

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

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

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Benny, Jack

12.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

13.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Coke, Sir Edward

16.

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

Walters, Lily

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

18.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

21.

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

Bible

22.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

23.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

24.

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

Humes, James

25.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

29.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

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

Ogden, Tom

31.

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

32.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

Claudius

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

Sarton, May

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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

38.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

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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 people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

42.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

43.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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