Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

2.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

3.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

6.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

7.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

8.

A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

Brooks, Van Wyck

9.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

11.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

12.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Phelps, C. C.

15.

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

Pinter, Harold

16.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

17.

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

Archbold, Ralph

18.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

19.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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.

21.

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

Ogden, Tom

22.

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

Gratton, Henry

23.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

24.

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

25.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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

Bible

27.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

29.

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

Ford, John

30.

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

Phillips, H. L.

31.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

33.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Sarton, May

39.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

44.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

45.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

46.

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

Plutarch

47.

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

48.

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

Benny, Jack

49.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

50.

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

Osler, Sir William