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 makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mescon, Micheal

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Claudius

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

Archbold, Ralph

16.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

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

20.

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

Homer

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

26.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

27.

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

Orben, Robert

28.

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

White, Somers

29.

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

Sarton, May

30.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

33.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

34.

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

Gratton, Henry

35.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

37.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Walters, Lily

40.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

43.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

White, R. S.

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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