Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Osler, Sir William

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Homer

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

Bible

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Landers, Ann

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

10.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plutarch

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Humes, James

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

White, Somers

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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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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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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