Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

White, R. S.

3.

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

Orben, Robert

4.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

5.

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

Madden, John

6.

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

Phelps, C. C.

7.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

8.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

9.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

10.

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

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

White, Somers

14.

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

Plutarch

15.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Walters, Lily

17.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

19.

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

Ogden, Tom

20.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

21.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Archbold, Ralph

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

25.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

26.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

29.

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

Taft, William Howard

30.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Wayne, John

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

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

Sarton, May

35.

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

Carnegie, Dale

36.

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

Ford, John

37.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

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

Rogers, Will

39.

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

Jonson, Ben

40.

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

41.

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

Gardner, Herbert

42.

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

Witherspoon

43.

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

Beggs, Jim

44.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.