Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Homer

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Walters, Lily

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

Humes, James

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

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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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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Benny, Jack

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To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ogden, Tom

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Claudius

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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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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Wayne, John

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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 suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.