Speakers Quotes

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

Ovid

The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.

Piet Hein

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.

Franklin J. Dickman

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

Winston Churchill

First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.

Epictetus

When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.

Hubert Humphrey

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

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

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Speech is the small change of silence.

George Meredith

If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.

Calvin Coolidge

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

Winston Churchill

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.

Elizabeth Charles

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

G.K. Chesterton

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Bible

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

Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee.

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

Baltasar Gracián

None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Cicero

Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

Adlai Stevenson

Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.

James Russell Lowell

Whatever is well said by another is mine.

Seneca

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.

George Bernard Shaw

A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

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

Herbert Gardner

Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Words represent your emotional state, beware of what you speak! Restore your mental balance.

Ramana Pemmaraju

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.

Shannon L. Alder

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don’t. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit to the speaker (which we address in chapter 5) then it will be easy for you to get the caliber of speakers you want.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

A few will say no, but many will say yes…remember that every No will get you closer to the many yeses as long as you have a system that works for you.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

And finally have fun with it. If you’re not having fun, your speakers won’t have fun, and your participants won’t have fun. No matter what happens, remember that marketing should be fun, and life should be enjoyed.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

Speakers are very busy people, with their own lives.Once you remember that sentence then it’s easy to know how to treat them and attract them.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Leaders inform, inspire and improve people. They educate, empower and enrich the value of their followers. They make impacts.

Israelmore Ayivor

Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".

John Paul Warren

Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.

John Paul Warren

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.

John Paul Warren

The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant!

John Paul Warren

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.

John Paul Warren

I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.

John Paul Warren

The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.

John Paul Warren

Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.

John Paul Warren

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

John Paul Warren

A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark”.

John Paul Warren

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