Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

- Humes, James

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Chinese

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

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

11.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Wayne, John

13.

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

Orben, Robert

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

16.

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

17.

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

Taft, William Howard

18.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

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

20.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Sarton, May

22.

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

Rogers, Will

23.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

24.

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

Benny, Jack

25.

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

Gratton, Henry

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

White, Somers

29.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

30.

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

Osler, Sir William

31.

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

Witherspoon

32.

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

Ford, John

33.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

34.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

36.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

37.

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.

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.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

40.

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

White, R. S.

41.

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.