Motivational Quotes

Speakers and speaking

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

- Hansen, Mark Victor

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Madden, John

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Saying

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

Ford, John

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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

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

Benny, Jack

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Landers, Ann

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Humes, James

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

29.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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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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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Sarton, May

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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

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

Wayne, John

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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