Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

- Proverb, Arabian

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

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

Bible

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

Carnegie, Dale

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Gratton, Henry

10.

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

11.

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

Phelps, C. C.

12.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

13.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

14.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

15.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

16.

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

Madden, John

17.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

18.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

19.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

21.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

22.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

Archbold, Ralph

24.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

25.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

30.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Ford, John

33.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

34.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

35.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

36.

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

Horace

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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.

38.

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

Rogers, Will

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Better never begin than never make an end.