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.

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

2.

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

Archbold, Ralph

3.

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

Homer

4.

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

Gratton, Henry

5.

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.

6.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

8.

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

Ogden, Tom

9.

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

Benny, Jack

10.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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

Carnegie, Dale

12.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

13.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

14.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

15.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

16.

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

17.

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

Plutarch

18.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Claudius

21.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

22.

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

23.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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.

27.

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

Pinter, Harold

28.

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

Landers, Ann

29.

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

Bible

30.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

31.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Carnegie, Dale

35.

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

Witherspoon

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

38.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

39.

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

40.

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

Walters, Lily

41.

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

Wayne, John

42.

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

Pascal, Blaise

43.

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