Public Speaking Quotes

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Attention, Taught, Failing

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Motivational, Death

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• Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

  Tom Peters

  Differences, Skills, Damn

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• Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

  Dale Carnegie

  Be Confident, Prepared, Speakers

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Oratory, Speech, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.340

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• History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, People, Desire

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• An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

  Dale Carnegie

  Heart, Mind, Success Or Failure

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

  Scott Berkun

  Thinking

  Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.57, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Said, Audience, Speakers

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

  Harvey Diamond

  Want, Achieve, Audience

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

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Witty, Clothes

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

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Book, Communication

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.520, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Skills, Wish, Literature

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.94, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Self Improvement, Orators, Speaking In Public

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

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

  Cato the Elder

  Communication, Self Improvement, Language

  Quoted in Caius Julius Victor, Ars Rhetorica

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• A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

  Dale Carnegie

  Voyages, Speakers

  Dale Carnegie (1983). “Ht Develop Slf Con”, p.54, IICA Biblioteca Venezuela

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

  Mardy Grothe

  Heart, People, Incredibles

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

  Mark Twain

  Liars, Skills, Two

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• As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Rights, Long, Matter

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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.128, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

  Adolf Hitler

  Memories, Ideas, Crowds

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.197, eKitap Projesi

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• It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of ostracism, the fear of standing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, the fear of being an outcast. THE FEAR OF BEING DIFFERENT PREVENTS MOST PEOPLE FROM SEEKING NEW WAYS TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Being Different, Criticism

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.89, Robert Kiyosaki

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• If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to get over those nerves is to fully understand the material, the points, the policy you are trying to explain - and then practice it a little bit.

  Dana Perino

  Practice, Perfectly Normal, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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