Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

2.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

3.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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.

6.

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

Booher, Dianna

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Pinter, Harold

9.

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

Beggs, Jim

10.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

13.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

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

Gardner, Herbert

15.

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

Mescon, Micheal

16.

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

Landers, Ann

17.

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

Osler, Sir William

18.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Ford, John

21.

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

Orben, Robert

22.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Humes, James

29.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

Pascal, Blaise

32.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

33.

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

Proverb, Italian

34.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

White, R. S.

37.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

38.

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

Jonson, Ben

39.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

40.

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

Wayne, John

41.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

42.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Rogers, Will

44.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

45.

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

Phillips, H. L.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Witherspoon

49.

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

Gratton, Henry

50.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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