Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Horace

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

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

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

Walters, Lily

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

12.

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

Sarton, May

13.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

14.

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

Ford, John

15.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

White, R. S.

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Benny, Jack

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

White, Somers

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.