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

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

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Benny, Jack

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

Plutarch

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Pinter, Harold

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mescon, Micheal

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Ford, John

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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Saying

24.

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

Ogden, Tom

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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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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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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Claudius

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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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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Walters, Lily

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

White, Somers

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De