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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Jonson, Ben

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.

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

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

10.

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

Walters, Lily

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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

12.

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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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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A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

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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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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Homer

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

Wayne, John

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

Horace

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Landers, Ann