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

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

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

Orben, Robert

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

10.

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

Pascal, Blaise

11.

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

White, Somers

12.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Horace

14.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

15.

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

Wayne, John

16.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

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

20.

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

Landers, Ann

21.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

22.

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

Pinter, Harold

23.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

24.

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

Osler, Sir William

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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

27.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

28.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Madden, John

31.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

33.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

35.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

36.

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

37.

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

Walters, Lily

38.

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

Benny, Jack

39.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

40.

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

Archbold, Ralph

41.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

42.

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

Saying

43.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

44.

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

Proverb, Italian

45.

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

46.

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

Mescon, Micheal

47.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

48.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

49.

He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.