Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

Wilde, Oscar

4.

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

Osler, Sir William

5.

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

Booher, Dianna

6.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

7.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Benny, Jack

8.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

9.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

Claudius

11.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

12.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

14.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Sarton, May

17.

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

Orben, Robert

18.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

19.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

20.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

21.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

22.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Carnegie, Dale

25.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

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

27.

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

Ogden, Tom

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

30.

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

31.

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

Taft, William Howard

32.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

33.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Landers, Ann

35.

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

White, Somers

36.

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

37.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

38.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

39.

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

White, R. S.

40.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

41.

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

Witherspoon

42.

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

Phelps, C. C.

43.

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

44.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

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

Homer

47.

What is uttered is finished and done with.