Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Ford, John

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Walters, Lily

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Proverb, Italian

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

10.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

12.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Claudius

19.

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

Homer

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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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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Ford, John

25.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gratton, Henry

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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

30.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

31.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Osler, Sir William

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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

35.

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

Witherspoon

36.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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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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There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

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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

40.

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Plutarch

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

White, Somers

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

46.

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

Benny, Jack

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We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.