Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Walters, Lily

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Sarton, May

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ford, John

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Saying

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

White, R. S.

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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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