Speaking In Public Quotes

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

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

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

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

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

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

Say what you have to say, and then stop.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Know what you're talking about.

Know what you are talking about.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

People will never forget how you made them feel.