Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Witherspoon

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Landers, Ann

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

Bible

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

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Pinter, Harold

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Claudius

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

21.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

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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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard

32.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Witherspoon

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

Jonson, Ben

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

White, Somers

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

Mescon, Micheal

41.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Homer

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

White, R. S.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Walters, Lily

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