Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Bible

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Pascal, Blaise

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gratton, Henry

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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.

10.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

11.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

13.

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

Osler, Sir William

14.

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

15.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

16.

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.

17.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Sarton, May

19.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

20.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

Plutarch

24.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

26.

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

Walters, Lily

27.

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

Witherspoon

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

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

Horace

31.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Benny, Jack

35.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Taft, William Howard

37.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

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

41.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

42.

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

Madden, John

43.

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

Beggs, Jim

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

45.

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

46.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

47.

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

48.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.