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

20.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

21.

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

Humes, James

22.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

23.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

24.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

25.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

26.

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

Carnegie, Dale

27.

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

Sarton, May

28.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

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

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

34.

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

35.

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

36.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

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

38.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

39.

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

Pinter, Harold

40.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

41.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

42.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

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.

44.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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

Bible

47.

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