Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Homer

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

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

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ford, John

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

11.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

12.

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

13.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Phillips, H. L.

17.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

18.

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.

19.

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

Saying

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

22.

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

Orben, Robert

23.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

25.

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

Homer

26.

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

27.

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

Landers, Ann

28.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

29.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

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

34.

Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

37.

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

38.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

39.

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

Beggs, Jim

40.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

41.

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

Ogden, Tom

42.

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

Osler, Sir William

43.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

44.

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

White, R. S.

45.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

46.

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

47.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

48.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

49.

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

Wilde, Oscar

50.

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