Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Ford, John

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Madden, John

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

Billings, Josh

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

Wayne, John

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Witherspoon

The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.

Walters, Lily

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

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

11.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

12.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

14.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

Horace

16.

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

Ford, John

17.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

18.

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

Gratton, Henry

19.

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.

20.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

21.

He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

Proverb, French

22.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

23.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

26.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

27.

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

Osler, Sir William

28.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Mescon, Micheal

31.

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

Gardner, Herbert

32.

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

33.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

34.

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

Sarton, May

35.

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

Beggs, Jim

36.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

White, Somers

40.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Saying

42.

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

Ogden, Tom

43.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

44.

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.

45.

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

Archbold, Ralph

46.

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

Booher, Dianna

47.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

A good speaker makes a good liar.