Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

- Proverb, Spanish

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Taft, William Howard

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

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

White, R. S.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Ogden, Tom

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Booher, Dianna

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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

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Plutarch

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.