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Speakers and speaking

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.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Plutarch

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

Sarton, May

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Rogers, Will

10.

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

Phelps, C. C.

11.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Jonson, Ben

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

15.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

16.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

17.

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

White, R. S.

18.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

19.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

20.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

24.

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

Gratton, Henry

25.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

26.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

27.

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

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

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

30.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Booher, Dianna

32.

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

Benny, Jack

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

36.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

38.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

44.

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

45.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

48.

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

Bible

49.

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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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