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

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

Plutarch

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

11.

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

12.

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

White, Somers

13.

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

Mescon, Micheal

14.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

17.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

18.

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

Carnegie, Dale

19.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

22.

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

Madden, John

23.

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

Wayne, John

24.

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

Humes, James

25.

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

Pinter, Harold

26.

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

Archbold, Ralph

27.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

28.

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

Jonson, Ben

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Taft, William Howard

31.

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

Claudius

32.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

33.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

34.

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

Gratton, Henry

35.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

39.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

40.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

43.

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

Benny, Jack

44.

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

Booher, Dianna

45.

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

Rogers, Will

46.

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

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

Walters, Lily

49.

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

Ford, John

50.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.