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

Mescon, Micheal

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

Claudius

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Benny, Jack

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

Homer

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Osler, Sir William

10.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

14.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

15.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

Ford, John

18.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

19.

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

White, Somers

20.

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

Billings, Josh

21.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Saying

23.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

24.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

25.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

26.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

27.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

29.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

30.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

32.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

34.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Meltzer, Bernard

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

40.

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

Booher, Dianna

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

White, R. S.

43.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

47.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.