Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Ogden, Tom

3.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

White, R. S.

6.

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

Claudius

7.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

8.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

9.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

11.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

16.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

17.

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

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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.

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

21.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

22.

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

Saying

23.

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

Walters, Lily

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Landers, Ann

26.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

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

28.

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

Orben, Robert

29.

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

Homer

30.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

31.

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

Humes, James

32.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

34.

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

Pascal, Blaise

35.

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

Witherspoon

36.

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

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

39.

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

Jonson, Ben

40.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Beggs, Jim

43.

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

White, Somers

44.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

46.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Osler, Sir William

49.

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

50.

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

Horace

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