Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Homer

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Pinter, Harold

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

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

Lewis, Joe E.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sarton, May

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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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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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Walters, Lily

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Proverb, Italian

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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Phelps, C. C.

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.