Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Beggs, Jim

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

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

Plutarch

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

Wilde, Oscar

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Churchill, Winston

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

10.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Sarton, May

13.

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

Witherspoon

14.

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

Gratton, Henry

15.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Landers, Ann

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

19.

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

Mescon, Micheal

20.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

21.

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

22.

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

Orben, Robert

23.

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

Phelps, C. C.

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

28.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

30.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

31.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

32.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

33.

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

Walters, Lily

34.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

35.

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

36.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

37.

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

White, R. S.

38.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

39.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

40.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

41.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Claudius

44.

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

Proverb, Italian

45.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

White, Somers

47.

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

Wayne, John

48.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

49.

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.

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von