Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

- White, Somers

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

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

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Claudius

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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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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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 closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Homer

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Pascal, Blaise

22.

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

25.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

White, R. S.

28.

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.

29.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

35.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gratton, Henry

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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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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

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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Sarton, May

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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 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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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert