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

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Pinter, Harold

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Benny, Jack

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walters, Lily

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

Horace

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

Wayne, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Humes, James

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Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

33.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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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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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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