Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Ford, John

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Gardner, Herbert

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Proverb, Italian

21.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

23.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

26.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Homer

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.