Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Taft, William Howard

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Homer

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

Horace

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Humes, James

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gratton, Henry

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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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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

White, Somers

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

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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He who does not say too much has too much to say.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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