Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

A good speaker makes a good liar.

- Proverb, German

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

2.

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

Gratton, Henry

3.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

4.

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

Claudius

5.

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

6.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

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

Witherspoon

8.

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

Wilde, Oscar

9.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

11.

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

Ogden, Tom

12.

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

Saying

13.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

16.

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Coke, Sir Edward

17.

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

18.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

19.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Madden, John

21.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

23.

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

Osler, Sir William

24.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

25.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Taft, William Howard

30.

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

Humes, James

31.

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

Proverb, Italian

32.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

33.

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

34.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

35.

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

Landers, Ann

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

38.

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

Rogers, Will

39.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

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

White, R. S.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

44.

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

Booher, Dianna

45.

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

46.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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