Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

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1.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

2.

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

Ogden, Tom

3.

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

Rogers, Will

4.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

5.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

6.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

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

Witherspoon

12.

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

Osler, Sir William

13.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

14.

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

Homer

15.

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

Taft, William Howard

16.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

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

Landers, Ann

18.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

19.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

20.

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

Phelps, C. C.

21.

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

Archbold, Ralph

22.

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

23.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

24.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Pascal, Blaise

27.

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

Claudius

28.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

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

White, R. S.

30.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

31.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

32.

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

Carnegie, Dale

33.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

34.

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

Jonson, Ben

35.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

36.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Beggs, Jim

38.

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

39.

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

Saying

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

44.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

46.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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

Walters, Lily

48.

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

Orben, Robert

49.

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