Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Gardner, Herbert

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Benny, Jack

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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Homer

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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.

33.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Pinter, Harold

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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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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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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Speak little and to the purpose.