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

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Sarton, May

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

Carnegie, Dale

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Beggs, Jim

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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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Benny, Jack

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

21.

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

Wayne, John

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

28.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

30.

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Gratton, Henry

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

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

Landers, Ann

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Humes, James

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Walters, Lily

40.

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 didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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