Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- White, R. S.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Benny, Jack

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Horace

10.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

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

Madden, John

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Plutarch

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Humes, James

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Sarton, May

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

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

40.

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

Saying

41.

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

Booher, Dianna

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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