Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

- Wilde, Oscar

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

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Wilde, Oscar

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

10.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walters, Lily

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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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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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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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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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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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wayne, John

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

Rogers, Will

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There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

26.

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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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 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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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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