Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Gardner, Herbert

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

2.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

4.

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

5.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

Mescon, Micheal

7.

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

Billings, Josh

8.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

9.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

12.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Ogden, Tom

16.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

17.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

18.

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

Madden, John

19.

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

Saying

20.

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

Landers, Ann

21.

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

22.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Orben, Robert

24.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

25.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

26.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

27.

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

Benny, Jack

28.

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

Booher, Dianna

29.

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

30.

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

Gardner, Herbert

31.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Jonson, Ben

33.

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

Gratton, Henry

34.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

35.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Claudius

38.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

39.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

40.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Homer

42.

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

43.

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

Phillips, H. L.

44.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

45.

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

46.

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

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

Phelps, C. C.

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.