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

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

Saying

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Sarton, May

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Wayne, John

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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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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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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

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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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Mescon, Micheal

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von