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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

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

Taft, William Howard

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

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Walters, Lily

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

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

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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.

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Homer

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

Wilde, Oscar

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Saying

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Rogers, Will

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

29.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Gratton, Henry

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Claudius

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Benny, Jack

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Italian