Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

- Phillips, H. L.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Wayne, John

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

11.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte 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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Homer

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

Ford, John

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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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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

26.

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

Osler, Sir William

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Booher, Dianna

29.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

30.

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

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

33.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will

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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.

40.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

41.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

43.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

47.

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

48.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Proverb, Chinese