Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Booher, Dianna

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

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

Archbold, Ralph

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Ford, John

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Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Wayne, John

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

Gratton, Henry

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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