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

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

Wayne, John

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

Beggs, Jim

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Rogers, Will

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Horace

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Homer

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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Taft, William Howard

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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

43.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.

Walters, Lily

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Plutarch