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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

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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

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Mescon, Micheal

10.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

12.

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

13.

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

White, Somers

14.

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

Carnegie, Dale

15.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

17.

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

Saying

18.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

20.

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

Homer

21.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

22.

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

Gardner, Herbert

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Benny, Jack

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

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.

28.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

29.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

30.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

31.

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

Archbold, Ralph

32.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

33.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Booher, Dianna

36.

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

Osler, Sir William

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

Witherspoon

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

42.

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

Proverb, Italian

43.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

44.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

45.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

48.

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

49.

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

Humes, James

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