Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

A closed mouth catches no flies.

- Proverb, French

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

2.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

3.

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

Phillips, H. L.

4.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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

6.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

7.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

8.

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

9.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

10.

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

Landers, Ann

11.

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

Wayne, John

12.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

13.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

14.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

15.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

16.

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

Jonson, Ben

17.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Sarton, May

20.

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

Proverb, Italian

21.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

22.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

25.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Pascal, Blaise

36.

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

Gratton, Henry

37.

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

Benny, Jack

38.

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

Walters, Lily

39.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Claudius

41.

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

42.

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

Beggs, Jim

43.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

45.

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

Carnegie, Dale

46.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

47.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

49.

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

Saying

50.

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