Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

A good speaker makes a good liar.

- Proverb, German

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Phillips, H. L.

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

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Benny, Jack

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

Madden, John

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

Plutarch

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

10.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Saying

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Wayne, John

18.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

19.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

20.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

22.

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

White, R. S.

23.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

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

Ford, John

25.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

26.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

33.

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

Rogers, Will

34.

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

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.

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

Ogden, Tom

37.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

38.

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.

39.

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

Gratton, Henry

40.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

41.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

42.

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