Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Better never begin than never make an end.

- Herbert, George

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Billings, Josh

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Saying

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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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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Sarton, May

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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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Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Wayne, John

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

Pascal, Blaise

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Phelps, C. C.

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Horace

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

Osler, Sir William

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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.