Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

- Humes, James

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

2.

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

Proverb, Italian

3.

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.

4.

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

Mescon, Micheal

5.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

6.

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

7.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

8.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

9.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

10.

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

Taft, William Howard

11.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

12.

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

13.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

14.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

15.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

17.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

21.

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

Gratton, Henry

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Phillips, H. L.

24.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

25.

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

26.

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

Benny, Jack

27.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

28.

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

Horace

29.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Sarton, May

33.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

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.

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

37.

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

Claudius

38.

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

White, Somers

39.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

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

Carnegie, Dale

41.

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

Gardner, Herbert

42.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

44.

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

Pascal, Blaise

45.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Beggs, Jim

47.

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

Walters, Lily

48.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

49.

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

Ford, John

50.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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