Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

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

Wayne, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Landers, Ann

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

White, Somers

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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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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

14.

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

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

21.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Billings, Josh

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Pinter, Harold

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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

39.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

43.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Horace

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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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

48.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish