Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Phelps, C. C.

2.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

3.

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

4.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

6.

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

Claudius

7.

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

Taft, William Howard

8.

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

9.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

11.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Gardner, Herbert

13.

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

14.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

16.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

17.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

18.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

19.

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

Madden, John

20.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Pascal, Blaise

24.

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

25.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

26.

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.

27.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

32.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

33.

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

Walters, Lily

34.

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

White, R. S.

35.

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

Witherspoon

36.

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

Osler, Sir William

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

Ogden, Tom

39.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

45.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

46.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

47.

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.

48.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

49.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

50.

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

Pinter, Harold

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