Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Landers, Ann

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Wilde, Oscar

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

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

Wayne, John

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.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Archbold, Ralph

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

10.

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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

14.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

15.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

20.

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

21.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

22.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

24.

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

Jonson, Ben

25.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

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

Gardner, Herbert

28.

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

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Taft, William Howard

30.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

31.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

32.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Homer

34.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

36.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

41.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

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

Carnegie, Dale

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Sarton, May

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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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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar