Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Gardner, Herbert

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Rogers, Will

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

Ford, John

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

Gratton, Henry

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

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

White, Somers

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Italian

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Taft, William Howard

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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.

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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

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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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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.