Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Half wits talk much, but say little.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Carnegie, Dale

3.

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

Billings, Josh

4.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

5.

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

Archbold, Ralph

6.

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

Witherspoon

7.

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

Homer

8.

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.

9.

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

Orben, Robert

10.

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

Phelps, C. C.

11.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

12.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

13.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

14.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

16.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

17.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

18.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

19.

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

Wayne, John

20.

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

Madden, John

21.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

22.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

23.

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

Taft, William Howard

24.

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

Sarton, May

25.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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

Walters, Lily

27.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Claudius

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

34.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Gardner, Herbert

36.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

37.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Horace

40.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

41.

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

Booher, Dianna

42.

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

Ford, John

43.

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

Pinter, Harold

44.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

47.

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

48.

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

Wilde, Oscar

49.

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

White, Somers

50.

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