Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

- Meyers, Gerald C.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Pascal, Blaise

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Benny, Jack

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Booher, Dianna

14.

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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Claudius

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

White, Somers

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

Landers, Ann

22.

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

Bible

23.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Archbold, Ralph

25.

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

Carnegie, Dale

26.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

27.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Sarton, May

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Jonson, Ben

35.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Wilde, Oscar

37.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

46.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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