Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- White, Somers

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pascal, Blaise

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

10.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

11.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

12.

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

Beggs, Jim

13.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

14.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

18.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

19.

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

Orben, Robert

20.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

21.

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

Rogers, Will

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

24.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

25.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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

Ogden, Tom

27.

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

Wayne, John

28.

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

29.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

White, Somers

33.

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

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

Jonson, Ben

37.

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

Claudius

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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.

40.

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

41.

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

Osler, Sir William

42.

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

Saying

43.

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

44.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

46.

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

Benny, Jack

47.

Half wits talk much, but say little.