Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Rogers, Will

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Somers

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Taft, William Howard

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Landers, Ann

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

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Benny, Jack

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

Gardner, Herbert

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Osler, Sir William

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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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 knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wayne, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Claudius

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A closed mouth catches no flies.