Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Bible

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

Madden, John

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Taft, William Howard

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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 good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

24.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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

Humes, James

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

35.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo