Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

- Lewis, Joe E.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Ford, John

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

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Walters, Lily

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Plutarch

14.

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

Bible

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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.

16.

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

Taft, William Howard

17.

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

Humes, James

18.

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

Booher, Dianna

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

21.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

22.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

24.

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

Homer

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

White, Somers

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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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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

28.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carnegie, Dale

30.

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

White, R. S.

31.

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.

33.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

34.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

35.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Sarton, May

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

Horace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

46.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Osler, Sir William

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi