Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Phelps, C. C.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

White, Somers

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Ford, John

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

Phillips, H. L.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Benny, Jack

11.

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

Osler, Sir William

12.

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

Madden, John

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Saying

15.

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

16.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

White, R. S.

18.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

20.

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

Carnegie, Dale

21.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

22.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

23.

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

Mescon, Micheal

24.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

26.

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

Ogden, Tom

27.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

28.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

30.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

31.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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.

33.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

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

Gratton, Henry

37.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

38.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

41.

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

Humes, James

42.

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

43.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

44.

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

Plutarch

45.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.