Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

A closed mouth catches no flies.

- Proverb, French

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

2.

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.

3.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

4.

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

Madden, John

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Carnegie, Dale

7.

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

Gratton, Henry

8.

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

Mescon, Micheal

9.

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

Phelps, C. C.

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

14.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

15.

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

16.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

17.

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

Horace

18.

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

19.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

Walters, Lily

23.

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

24.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

25.

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

Humes, James

26.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

27.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

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

Pinter, Harold

29.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

30.

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

Claudius

31.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

Osler, Sir William

33.

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

Taft, William Howard

34.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

White, Somers

37.

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

Witherspoon

38.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

39.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

40.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

42.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Gardner, Herbert

45.

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