Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Billings, Josh

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Orben, Robert

2.

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

3.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

4.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

5.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

6.

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

White, Somers

7.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

8.

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

Ford, John

9.

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Gardner, Herbert

11.

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

12.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

13.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

14.

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

Humes, James

15.

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

Landers, Ann

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

20.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

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

Carnegie, Dale

23.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

24.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

28.

A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

29.

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

Sarton, May

30.

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

Proverb, Italian

31.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

33.

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

Beggs, Jim

34.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

35.

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

Bible

36.

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.

37.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

39.

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

40.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi