Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Walters, Lily

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Archbold, Ralph

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

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

Sarton, May

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

Wayne, John

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carnegie, Dale

12.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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

Landers, Ann

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Saying

21.

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

22.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

26.

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

Horace

27.

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

28.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

33.

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

Rogers, Will

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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.

35.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Osler, Sir William

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

White, R. S.

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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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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

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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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von