Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

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

Pinter, Harold

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Osler, Sir William

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Beggs, Jim

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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Wayne, John

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Witherspoon

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Horace

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Homer

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi