Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Jonson, Ben

2.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

3.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

4.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

5.

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

Churchill, Winston

6.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

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

Phillips, H. L.

8.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

10.

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

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

13.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

14.

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

Mescon, Micheal

15.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

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

Phelps, C. C.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

20.

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

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

25.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Benny, Jack

27.

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

Ford, John

28.

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

29.

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

Pascal, Blaise

30.

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

Madden, John

31.

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

Gratton, Henry

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

Witherspoon

34.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

White, Somers

40.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

41.

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