Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Jonson, Ben

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

4.

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

5.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

8.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

9.

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

Gardner, Herbert

10.

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

Landers, Ann

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

14.

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

15.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

16.

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

Mescon, Micheal

17.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

20.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

22.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Orben, Robert

25.

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

Benny, Jack

26.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

27.

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

Beggs, Jim

28.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

29.

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

Carnegie, Dale

30.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

32.

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

Carnegie, Dale

33.

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.

34.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

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

Pinter, Harold

36.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

37.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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

Rogers, Will

39.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

40.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

41.

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

Plutarch

42.

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

43.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

45.

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

Sarton, May

46.

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

Wilde, Oscar