Speaking Quotes, Sayings about speeches
+3The will to win is important. But the will to prepare is vital.
— Joe Paterno
+3Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
- Buddha
+1Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
- Anne Bradstreet
+1Open your mouth and you’re wrong.
- Zen Proverb
+1Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
- Thomas Neiel
+1A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
- Cicero
+1Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
- Cato Elder
+1To be a person is to have a story to tell.
- Isak Dinesen
+1The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
- George Bancroft
+1The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
- William Hazlitt
+1The people are to be taken in very small doses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
- Spanish Proverb
+1Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
- Dionysius Halicarnassus
+1The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
- William Blake
+1No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
- Ira Hayes
+1Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
- Pubilius Syrus
+1Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
- Chinese Proverb
+1An Englishman’s way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
- Alan Jay Lerner
+1Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
- Quentin Crisp
+1Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling
+1Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
- Horace
+1If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken.
- Kim
+1A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
- Desiderius Erasmus
+1Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
- Austin O’Malley
+1What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett
+1I don’t care what they call me as long as they mention my name.
- George M. Cohan
+1The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.
- Germain G. Glien
+1Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
- Orson Rega Card
+1By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
- Winston Churchill
+1It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.
- Wayne Burgraff
+1Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
- Hermann Hesse
+1Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
– Wendell Johnson
+1If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
– George Barzan
+1You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
- John Ford
+1Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.
- Dianna Booher
+1There are only two types of speakers in the world. The nervous and Liars.
- Mark Twain
+1One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.
- Frank Sheed
