Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Osler, Sir William

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Phillips, H. L.

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

Mescon, Micheal

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Landers, Ann

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Ogden, Tom

10.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Booher, Dianna

13.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

14.

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

15.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

21.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

22.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

23.

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

24.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

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.

27.

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

Beggs, Jim

28.

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

29.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

30.

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

Humes, James

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

33.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

34.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

35.

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

Pascal, Blaise

36.

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.

37.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

39.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

40.

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

White, Somers

41.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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

43.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

44.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

45.

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

Wayne, John

46.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

47.

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

48.

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

Madden, John

49.

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

50.

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

Jonson, Ben