Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Horace

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Wayne, John

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Witherspoon

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

14.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Proverb, Italian

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

White, Somers

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

Rogers, Will

26.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Plutarch

28.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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.

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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Landers, Ann

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Sarton, May

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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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.