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 speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

2.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

3.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

6.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

7.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

8.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

9.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

12.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

13.

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

Archbold, Ralph

14.

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

15.

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

Sarton, May

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

18.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

19.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

20.

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

White, R. S.

21.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

22.

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

Orben, Robert

23.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

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

Rogers, Will

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

27.

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

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Gratton, Henry

32.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

34.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

35.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

Osler, Sir William

40.

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

41.

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

Taft, William Howard

42.

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

Witherspoon

43.

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

44.

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

Landers, Ann

45.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

46.

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

Proverb, Italian

47.

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