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

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Jonson, Ben

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Italian

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Humes, James

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Benny, Jack

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

Claudius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Saying

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Horace

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

Ogden, Tom

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Osler, Sir William

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Sarton, May

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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

45.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

White, Somers

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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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I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pilgrim, Peace