Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Archbold, Ralph

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Gratton, Henry

2.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

3.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

4.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

5.

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

Humes, James

6.

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

Plutarch

7.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

8.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

9.

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

Osler, Sir William

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Madden, John

12.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

13.

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

14.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

16.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

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

White, Somers

18.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

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

Bible

20.

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

21.

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

Proverb, Italian

22.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

23.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

24.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

25.

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

Carnegie, Dale

26.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Witherspoon

28.

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

29.

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

Billings, Josh

30.

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

Gardner, Herbert

31.

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

Horace

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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.

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.