Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Walters, Lily

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Humes, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Carnegie, Dale

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

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

Sarton, May

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

Coke, Sir Edward

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

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

Madden, John

11.

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

Witherspoon

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

Walters, Lily

14.

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

Homer

15.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Plutarch

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

24.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

25.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

27.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

28.

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

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

Booher, Dianna

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.