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

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

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

Booher, Dianna

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Sarton, May

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

White, R. S.

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

Ogden, Tom

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Homer

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

Walters, Lily

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Claudius

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

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

Ford, John

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

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We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.