Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

- Mirabeau, Comte De

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Carnegie, Dale

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Beggs, Jim

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Homer

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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.

Proverb

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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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A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

Brooks, Van Wyck

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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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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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