Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Meyers, Gerald C.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Pinter, Harold

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wayne, John

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Rogers, Will

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Humes, James

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

Claudius

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plutarch

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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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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.