Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Walters, Lily

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Claudius

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

Gardner, Herbert

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

10.

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

Taft, William Howard

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

White, Somers

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

16.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

21.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Homer

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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

28.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

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

Plutarch

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

Bible

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

Beggs, Jim

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Saying

44.

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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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

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

Humes, James

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

Gratton, Henry

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.