Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

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Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Mescon, Micheal

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

11.

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

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

14.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

15.

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

Taft, William Howard

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gratton, Henry

21.

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

Wayne, John

23.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

24.

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

Plutarch

25.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Landers, Ann

27.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

30.

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

Sarton, May

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

33.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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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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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

41.

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

Osler, Sir William

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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.