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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Carnegie, Dale

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

10.

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

Wayne, John

11.

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

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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

Bible

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

14.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

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

Taft, William Howard

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

21.

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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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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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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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

25.

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

Booher, Dianna

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Saying

28.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Beggs, Jim

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

White, Somers

33.

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

Archbold, Ralph

35.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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

40.

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

Sarton, May

41.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

42.

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

Humes, James

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.