Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

2.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

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

Ford, John

4.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

5.

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

Pascal, Blaise

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

8.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

9.

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

Ogden, Tom

10.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Meltzer, Bernard

12.

Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

Osler, Sir William

13.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Carnegie, Dale

17.

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

Phillips, H. L.

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Archbold, Ralph

20.

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

White, R. S.

21.

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

Gardner, Herbert

22.

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

Beggs, Jim

23.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

26.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

29.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Mescon, Micheal

33.

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

34.

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

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

Landers, Ann

36.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

38.

A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

39.

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

40.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

43.

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

Plutarch

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

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