Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Gratton, Henry

10.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Plutarch

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Mescon, Micheal

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

27.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Walters, Lily

32.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

33.

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

Jonson, Ben

34.

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

Taft, William Howard

35.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

38.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

39.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

40.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

41.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

42.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

43.

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

Osler, Sir William

44.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

46.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

Orben, Robert

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von