Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

The less people think the more they talk.

- Proverb

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Plutarch

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Osler, Sir William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Benny, Jack

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

Walters, Lily

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Wayne, John

28.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Somers

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

Bible

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Claudius

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

Humes, James

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Landers, Ann

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

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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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Booher, Dianna

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Homer