Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Madden, John

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

2.

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

Madden, John

3.

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

Churchill, Winston

4.

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

Archbold, Ralph

5.

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

Saying

6.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

7.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

8.

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

Jonson, Ben

9.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

11.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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.

13.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

14.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

15.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

19.

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

Horace

20.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

21.

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

Humes, James

22.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Wayne, John

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Gardner, Herbert

28.

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

Phillips, H. L.

29.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

30.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

31.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

32.

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

33.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Booher, Dianna

35.

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

Pascal, Blaise

36.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence