#Speaking Quotes

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

“There is no true orator who is not a hero.”

“Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'”

“Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.”

“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”

“One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.”

“All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.”

“We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.”

“He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.”

“Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.”

“Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.”

“It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.”

“The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.”

“I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.”

“When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?”

“Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.”

“Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.”

“Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.”

“Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.”

“When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.”