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

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Wayne, John

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.

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

13.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

14.

The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.

Walters, Lily

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

White, Somers

16.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

Jonson, Ben

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Homer

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, 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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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Claudius

35.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

37.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

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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

42.

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

Witherspoon

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark