Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

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

White, Somers

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Saying

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

Madden, John

10.

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

Sarton, May

11.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

12.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

18.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ford, John

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

Benny, Jack

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Humes, James

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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

26.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Plutarch

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

30.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

31.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

32.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

33.

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

Orben, Robert

34.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Homer

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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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Landers, Ann

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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