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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Gratton, Henry

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

White, Somers

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Saying

17.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Booher, Dianna

20.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Humes, James

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

25.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

26.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

28.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Rogers, Will

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

35.

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.

36.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Sarton, May

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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