Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Witherspoon

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

Pinter, Harold

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ford, John

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Humes, James

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

Walters, Lily

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

Sarton, May

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

Madden, 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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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Rogers, Will

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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