Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

- Twain, Mark

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

4.

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

Orben, Robert

5.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

6.

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

White, R. S.

7.

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

Saying

8.

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

Phelps, C. C.

9.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

10.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

11.

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

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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

Ogden, Tom

13.

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

Benny, Jack

14.

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.

15.

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

Wayne, John

16.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

17.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

19.

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

Archbold, Ralph

20.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

21.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Rogers, Will

24.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

25.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

27.

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

Walters, Lily

28.

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

29.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

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

31.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

35.

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

Sarton, May

36.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

37.

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

Gratton, Henry

38.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Carnegie, Dale

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Claudius

42.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

44.

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

Landers, Ann

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Italian

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Pascal, Blaise

50.

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

Jonson, Ben

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