Speakers and Speaking Quotes
104 quotations about Speakers and Speaking
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
I didn't say the things I said.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
Authors on Speakers and Speaking
Arabian Proverb
Ralph Archbold
Jack Benny
Yogi Berra
Bible
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Dianna Booher
Thomas Carlyle
Dale Carnegie
Cato The Elder
William Ellery Channing
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Chinese Proverb
Charles Churchill
Winston Churchill
Marcus T. Cicero
Claudius
Sir Edward Coke
Benjamin Disraeli
Ralph Waldo Emerson