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.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

2.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

3.

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

4.

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

5.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

6.

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.

7.

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

White, Somers

8.

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

Landers, Ann

9.

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.

10.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

14.

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

Carnegie, Dale

15.

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

Saying

16.

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

Gratton, Henry

17.

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

18.

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

White, R. S.

19.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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

Horace

21.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Sarton, May

25.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

26.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Pascal, Blaise

28.

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

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

32.

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

33.

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

Humes, James

34.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Carnegie, Dale

36.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

37.

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

Beggs, Jim

38.

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

Mescon, Micheal

39.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

40.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Phelps, C. C.

43.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

45.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

47.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

48.

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

49.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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