Motivational Quotes

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.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

Plutarch

3.

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

Gratton, Henry

4.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

5.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

6.

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

7.

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

Homer

8.

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

Ogden, Tom

9.

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

10.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

11.

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

Saying

12.

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

13.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

14.

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

15.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Pascal, Blaise

17.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

Horace

20.

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

Carnegie, Dale

21.

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

Witherspoon

22.

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

Phillips, H. L.

23.

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

Mescon, Micheal

24.

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

Wayne, John

25.

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

Walters, Lily

26.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

27.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

28.

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

Booher, Dianna

29.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

30.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

31.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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.

36.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

37.

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

38.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Beggs, Jim

40.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

41.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Ford, John

42.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Proverb, Italian

45.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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

Taft, William Howard

50.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent