Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Horace

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Horace

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Walters, Lily

10.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Claudius

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Benny, Jack

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Billings, Josh

31.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Plutarch

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Beggs, Jim

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Homer

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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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

41.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sarton, May

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.