Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Homer

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Landers, Ann

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Sarton, May

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wayne, John

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

18.

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

Booher, Dianna

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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

21.

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Claudius

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

39.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ford, John

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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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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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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