Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Walters, Lily

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

2.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

3.

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

Pascal, Blaise

4.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

5.

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

Orben, Robert

6.

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

Archbold, Ralph

7.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Pinter, Harold

9.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

10.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

13.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

14.

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

Gratton, Henry

15.

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

Horace

16.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

18.

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

19.

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

Carnegie, Dale

20.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

21.

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

White, Somers

22.

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

23.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

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

Humes, James

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Benny, Jack

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

Plutarch

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

34.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

35.

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

36.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

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

38.

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

39.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

41.

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

Carnegie, Dale

42.

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

Phelps, C. C.

43.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

44.

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.

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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