Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Speak and the man shall be shown.

- Proverb

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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.

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

White, Somers

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

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Landers, Ann

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

Benny, Jack

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jonson, Ben

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Witherspoon

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He who does not say too much has too much to say.

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

White, R. S.

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Walters, Lily

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

Ford, John

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

Rogers, Will

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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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 that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pilgrim, Peace