Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Landers, Ann

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

Homer

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beggs, Jim

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Wayne, John

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

Osler, Sir William

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Madden, John

14.

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

15.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

16.

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

Phelps, C. C.

17.

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

Walters, Lily

18.

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Coke, Sir Edward

19.

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

Witherspoon

20.

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

Mescon, Micheal

21.

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

Phillips, H. L.

22.

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

23.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

25.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

26.

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

Carnegie, Dale

27.

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

White, Somers

28.

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

29.

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

Benny, Jack

30.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

31.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

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

33.

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

Gardner, Herbert

34.

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

Taft, William Howard

35.

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

Gratton, Henry

36.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

38.

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

Claudius

39.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

40.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

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

Archbold, Ralph

42.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

Plutarch

45.

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

Ogden, Tom

46.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

47.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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

49.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Wilde, Oscar