Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

What is uttered is finished and done with.

- Mann, Thomas

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Plutarch

2.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

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

Horace

4.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

5.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

7.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

8.

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

Walters, Lily

9.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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.

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

Gratton, Henry

12.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Ogden, Tom

14.

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

15.

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

Taft, William Howard

16.

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

Ford, John

17.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

19.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

21.

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

Benny, Jack

22.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

23.

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

Beggs, Jim

24.

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.

25.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

26.

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

White, R. S.

27.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

30.

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

Humes, James

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

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

34.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

35.

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

36.

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

Saying

37.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

38.

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

Mescon, Micheal

39.

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