Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

What is uttered is finished and done with.

- Mann, Thomas

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Humes, James

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

White, Somers

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

White, R. S.

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Booher, Dianna

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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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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Walters, Lily

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

32.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Homer

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

Bible

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.