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

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

Orben, Robert

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

White, R. S.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Claudius

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

13.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

14.

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

Homer

15.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Sarton, May

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

19.

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

Ford, John

20.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Walters, Lily

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Landers, Ann

25.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

26.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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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.

28.

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

Booher, Dianna

29.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Billings, Josh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jonson, Ben

35.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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