Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Wayne, John

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

2.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

3.

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

4.

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

Benny, Jack

5.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

6.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

7.

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

Rogers, Will

8.

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

Ford, John

9.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

10.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

13.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

14.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

18.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

19.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

Ogden, Tom

24.

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

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Archbold, Ralph

27.

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

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

30.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

31.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

33.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

34.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

37.

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

Jonson, Ben

38.

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

Beggs, Jim

39.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

40.

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

Saying

41.

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.

42.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

43.

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

Claudius

44.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert