Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Taft, William Howard

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Carnegie, Dale

2.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

3.

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

Pinter, Harold

4.

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.

5.

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

Booher, Dianna

6.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

7.

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

Wilde, Oscar

8.

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

Rogers, Will

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.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Homer

12.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

14.

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

Saying

15.

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

White, Somers

16.

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

Horace

17.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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

23.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

24.

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

Benny, Jack

25.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

26.

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

Beggs, Jim

27.

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

Ogden, Tom

28.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

29.

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

Claudius

30.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

31.

He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Mescon, Micheal

33.

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

34.

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.

35.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

36.

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

Archbold, Ralph

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

Walters, Lily

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

41.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Madden, John

45.

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

Gardner, Herbert

46.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

47.

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

Osler, Sir William

48.

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

Billings, Josh

49.

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

50.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale