Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

- Humes, James

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Horace

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Claudius

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Saying

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Benny, Jack

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

21.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Ford, John

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Ogden, Tom

31.

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

Jonson, Ben

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Italian

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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