Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

- Samuel, Herbert

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

White, Somers

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Orben, Robert

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

Osler, Sir William

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Ford, John

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With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

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

Mescon, Micheal

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

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

Taft, William Howard

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Humes, James

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph