Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Meyers, Gerald C.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Billings, Josh

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

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

Witherspoon

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Ogden, Tom

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

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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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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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 smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bible

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

White, Somers

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Benny, Jack

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Archbold, Ralph

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Humes, James

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Saying

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Montesquieu, Charles 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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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Ford, John

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.