Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Proverb, Italian

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

2.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

Witherspoon

4.

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

Wilde, Oscar

5.

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

Saying

6.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

7.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

8.

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

Ogden, Tom

9.

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

Archbold, Ralph

10.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

12.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

13.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

14.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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

Benny, Jack

18.

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

Wayne, John

19.

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

Phelps, C. C.

20.

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

Carnegie, Dale

21.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

24.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

25.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard

26.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

27.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

28.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

29.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Horace

31.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

32.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

33.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

34.

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

Pascal, Blaise

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

38.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

39.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

40.

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

41.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

43.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

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.

45.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

46.

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

Rogers, Will

47.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Walters, Lily

49.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

50.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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