Motivational Quotes

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Humes, James

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Ogden, Tom

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Landers, Ann

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

10.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

White, Somers

13.

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

Sarton, May

14.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

16.

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

Homer

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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

18.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

19.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

White, R. S.

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

25.

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

Claudius

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

27.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

29.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

32.

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

Benny, Jack

33.

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

34.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

35.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

36.

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

Gratton, Henry

37.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

38.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Wayne, John

40.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

41.

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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