Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Plutarch

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Ford, John

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Benny, Jack

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

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

Humes, James

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

10.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Jonson, Ben

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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

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

Saying

15.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

16.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

17.

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

White, Somers

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

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

Booher, Dianna

24.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Walters, Lily

26.

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

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Taft, William Howard

29.

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

Ogden, Tom

30.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

31.

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

Wayne, John

33.

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

Plutarch

34.

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

Rogers, Will

35.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carnegie, Dale

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A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

42.

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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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

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

Gratton, Henry

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

48.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar