Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Witherspoon

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Homer

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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.

16.

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

Beggs, Jim

17.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

18.

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

Horace

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Booher, Dianna

22.

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

Jonson, Ben

24.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

25.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

26.

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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

28.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

29.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Claudius

34.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Plutarch

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

44.

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

White, Somers

48.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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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.