Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

- Hightower, Cullen

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Billings, Josh

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Homer

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

Carlyle, Thomas

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Witherspoon

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

15.

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

Sarton, May

16.

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

Taft, William Howard

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

18.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Ogden, Tom

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

27.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

30.

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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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Walters, Lily

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.