Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Witherspoon

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

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Phelps, C. C.

10.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

17.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

20.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

21.

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

Sarton, May

22.

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

Taft, William Howard

23.

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

24.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

25.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

26.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

27.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

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

Jonson, Ben

29.

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

30.

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

Booher, Dianna

31.

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

Pinter, Harold

32.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

34.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

35.

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

White, R. S.

36.

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

Beggs, Jim

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