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

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Booher, Dianna

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Witherspoon

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Wayne, John

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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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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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

White, Somers

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Ford, John

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

Taft, William Howard

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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Homer

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plutarch

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Claudius

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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