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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Claudius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sarton, May

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Ford, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Horace

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Walters, Lily

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

Wilde, Oscar

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Benny, Jack

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Humes, James

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Bible

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.