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

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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.

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

Pinter, Harold

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Saying

10.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

11.

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

Witherspoon

12.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

15.

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

Mescon, Micheal

16.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

17.

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

Landers, Ann

18.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

19.

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

Humes, James

20.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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

Gardner, Herbert

24.

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

25.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

26.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

29.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

33.

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

Gratton, Henry

34.

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

White, Somers

35.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

Phelps, C. C.

38.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

39.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

40.

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

41.

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

Ogden, Tom

42.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

44.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.