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

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gratton, Henry

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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.

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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Witherspoon

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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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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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Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

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

Saying

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

28.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Ford, John

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

Homer

34.

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Wilde, Oscar

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

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

Phelps, C. C.

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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.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Benny, Jack