Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Gardner, Herbert

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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.

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

Osler, Sir William

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Archbold, Ralph

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mescon, Micheal

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Walters, Lily

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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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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Benny, Jack

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Taft, William Howard

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

White, R. S.

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

Wayne, John

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

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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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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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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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