Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

- Sarton, May

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Horace

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

Homer

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

Benny, Jack

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

Pascal, Blaise

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Claudius

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

Archbold, Ralph

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

21.

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

Gratton, Henry

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

27.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Witherspoon

32.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Osler, Sir William

39.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ogden, Tom

43.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Wayne, John

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

48.

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

Walters, Lily

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark