Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Wayne, John

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

2.

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

Benny, Jack

3.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

4.

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

Booher, Dianna

5.

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

Humes, James

6.

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

7.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

8.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

9.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Proverb, Italian

15.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

16.

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

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Billings, Josh

21.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Walters, Lily

23.

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

Madden, John

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

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

Saying

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

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

Jonson, Ben

28.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Claudius

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Plutarch

32.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Gardner, Herbert

35.

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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

Taft, William Howard

39.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

40.

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

Witherspoon

41.

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

Phillips, H. L.

42.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

43.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Horace

46.

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

Landers, Ann

47.

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.

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

Rogers, Will

50.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor