Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

2.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

3.

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverb, Chinese

4.

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

5.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

6.

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

Claudius

7.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

8.

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

Taft, William Howard

9.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

Jonson, Ben

11.

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

12.

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

Madden, John

13.

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

14.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

15.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

16.

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

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

20.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

22.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

23.

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

Plutarch

24.

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

White, R. S.

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Phelps, C. C.

28.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

31.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

34.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

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

Archbold, Ralph

38.

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

Carnegie, Dale

39.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

40.

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

Benny, Jack

41.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

42.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

43.

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

Osler, Sir William

44.

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

45.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

46.

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.

47.

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

Witherspoon

48.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

49.

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

Ogden, Tom

50.

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