Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

White, R. S.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Benny, Jack

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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

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

Wayne, John

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

Plutarch

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ford, John

27.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Sarton, May

31.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Walters, Lily

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Claudius

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

Humes, James

41.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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