Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

I didn't say the things I said.

- Berra, Yogi

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Phillips, H. L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Horace

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

Saying

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

White, Somers

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

Osler, Sir William

10.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

13.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Madden, John

16.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

17.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

19.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

21.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

22.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

23.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

24.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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

Rogers, Will

26.

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

27.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Carnegie, Dale

29.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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.

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Phelps, C. C.

36.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

37.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

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

Homer

40.

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

Benny, Jack

41.

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

Mescon, Micheal

42.

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

Wayne, John

43.

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

44.

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

Pinter, Harold

45.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

46.

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

Bible

47.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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.

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

50.

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

Booher, Dianna