Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Landers, Ann

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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.

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

Saying

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

11.

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

Bible

12.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

13.

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

Benny, Jack

14.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

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

Ogden, Tom

16.

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

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

Proverb, French

19.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

20.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

22.

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

Jonson, Ben

23.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

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

Carnegie, Dale

25.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

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

Gratton, Henry

27.

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

Orben, Robert

28.

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

Archbold, Ralph

29.

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

Mescon, Micheal

30.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

31.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

33.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

34.

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

Walters, Lily

35.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

37.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

38.

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

Carnegie, Dale

39.

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

Sarton, May

40.

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

Humes, James

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ford, John

43.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Claudius

45.

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

Wilde, Oscar

46.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

47.

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

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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

49.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

50.

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

Pascal, Blaise