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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Humes, James

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

Taft, William Howard

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Claudius

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

Saying

13.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

14.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

15.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

18.

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

19.

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

Landers, Ann

20.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

21.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

22.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

24.

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

Wayne, John

25.

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

Madden, John

26.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

27.

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

Ogden, Tom

28.

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

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Sarton, May

30.

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

Benny, Jack

31.

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

Bible

32.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

Pascal, Blaise

34.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

35.

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

36.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

37.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

38.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

43.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

44.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

45.

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

46.

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

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

48.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

49.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gardner, Herbert