Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

White, R. S.

4.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

5.

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

Sarton, May

6.

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

7.

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

Madden, John

8.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

9.

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

White, Somers

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

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.

12.

The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.

Walters, Lily

13.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

15.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

16.

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

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

19.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

20.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Beggs, Jim

22.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

25.

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

Jonson, Ben

26.

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

Ford, John

27.

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

Carnegie, Dale

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Wayne, John

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

35.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

36.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

37.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

40.

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

Osler, Sir William

41.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

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

Archbold, Ralph

44.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.

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

Witherspoon

46.

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

Claudius

47.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

48.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Phelps, C. C.

50.

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

Saying

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