Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Better never begin than never make an end.

- Herbert, George

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Booher, Dianna

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Orben, Robert

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gratton, Henry

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Humes, James

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Claudius

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

27.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

32.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ford, John

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

44.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Italian

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