Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

- Channing, William Ellery

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

2.

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

Witherspoon

3.

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

4.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

5.

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

6.

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

Gardner, Herbert

7.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

8.

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

9.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

12.

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

Booher, Dianna

13.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

14.

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

Gratton, Henry

15.

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

Madden, John

16.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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.

21.

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

Landers, Ann

22.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

23.

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

Archbold, Ralph

24.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

25.

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

Mescon, Micheal

26.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

27.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

28.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

29.

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

Claudius

30.

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

Benny, Jack

31.

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

32.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

Humes, James

37.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Taft, William Howard

39.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

Beggs, Jim

43.

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

Carnegie, Dale

44.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.

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

Phelps, C. C.

46.

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

Wayne, John

47.

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

48.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

49.

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

Orben, Robert

50.

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

Pascal, Blaise