Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Gratton, Henry

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Pascal, Blaise

2.

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

Osler, Sir William

3.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

4.

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

Beggs, Jim

5.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

6.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

7.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

9.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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.

17.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

18.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Phelps, C. C.

20.

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

Claudius

21.

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

Ogden, Tom

22.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

23.

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

24.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

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

Archbold, Ralph

30.

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

32.

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

Saying

33.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

34.

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

35.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Witherspoon

37.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

38.

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

Homer

39.

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

Ford, John

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

42.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

44.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

45.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

46.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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