Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

- Saying

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

White, Somers

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Plutarch

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

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

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

Sarton, May

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Pinter, Harold

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Humes, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ford, John

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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

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wayne, John

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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Walters, Lily

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Rogers, Will

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Witherspoon

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

White, R. S.

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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 didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

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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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We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

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