Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Landers, Ann

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Proverb, Chinese

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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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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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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Horace

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

Homer

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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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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.

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He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

Proverb, French

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

Ford, John

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

White, Somers

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

Walters, Lily

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wayne, John

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