Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Orben, Robert

2.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

3.

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

4.

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

Jonson, Ben

5.

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

Phillips, H. L.

6.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

7.

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

Carnegie, Dale

8.

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

Bible

9.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

12.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Landers, Ann

15.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

16.

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

Claudius

17.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

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

Madden, John

19.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

21.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

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

Ogden, Tom

26.

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

Osler, Sir William

27.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Meltzer, Bernard

30.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

White, R. S.

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

Speak little and to the purpose.