Motivational Quotes

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

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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Gratton, Henry

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Homer

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

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

Plutarch

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Humes, James

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

Benny, Jack

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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.

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

Ogden, Tom

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Claudius

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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Walters, Lily

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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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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sarton, May

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Booher, Dianna

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

34.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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

Horace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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