Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

- Churchill, Winston

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

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

Claudius

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, Italian

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard

A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

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

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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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Ford, John

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

Plutarch

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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

Osler, Sir William

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Archbold, Ralph

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sarton, May

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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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.