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Speakers and speaking

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.

Speakers and speaking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Billings, Josh

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Phelps, C. C.

12.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

14.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

15.

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

Plutarch

16.

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

Wayne, John

17.

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

Saying

18.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

19.

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Claudius

21.

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

Booher, Dianna

22.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

Landers, Ann

24.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

25.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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.

28.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

32.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Witherspoon

34.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

38.

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

Homer

39.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

40.

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

Benny, Jack

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

43.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

44.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Pascal, Blaise

46.

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

Taft, William Howard

47.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

48.

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

Gardner, Herbert

49.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gratton, Henry

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