Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Plutarch

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

2.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

5.

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

Claudius

6.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

7.

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

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

10.

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

Saying

11.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

12.

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

Pascal, Blaise

13.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

15.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

16.

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

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

Wayne, John

18.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

19.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

20.

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

Jonson, Ben

21.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

White, Somers

25.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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

Carnegie, Dale

27.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

31.

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

32.

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

Phillips, H. L.

33.

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

Benny, Jack

34.

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

Walters, Lily

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Rogers, Will

38.

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

Taft, William Howard

39.

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

Pilgrim, Peace