Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carlyle, Thomas

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Walters, Lily

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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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Osler, Sir William

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Gratton, Henry

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Homer

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Claudius

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

Ogden, Tom

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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