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

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

Carnegie, Dale

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Proverb, Italian

Too many of us speak twice before we think

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Sarton, May

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Claudius

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Homer

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Landers, Ann

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

Horace

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Taft, William Howard

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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

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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