Speaking In Public Quotes - Page 2

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Glowing, Going With The Flow, Want

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

  Robert Orben

  Wisdom, Feet, Mouths

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.146, Main Street Books

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

  Lou Holtz

  Hands, Desire, Needs

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• My greatest fear is speaking in public.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Greatest Fear

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 27, 2001.

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• 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.

  Andres Iniesta

  Trying, Sometimes, Difficult

  "Q&A with Spain's Andres Iniesta". Interview with Richard Deitsch, www.si.com. June 02, 2011.

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

  Kristen Wiig

  School, Missing, Hated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Greatest Fear, People, Focus

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 27, 2001.

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Useless, Used, Knows

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• 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.

  April Bowlby

  Spotlight, Ballerina, Wanted

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  School, Causes, Scared

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• 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.

  Jason Wiles

  Book, Character, Cities

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

  Kevin James

  College, Class, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Susan Cain

  Introvert, Public Speaking, Comfortable

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• Say what you have to say, and then stop.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Public Speaking, Fear Of Public Speaking

  Rudolf Flesch (1949). “The Art of Readable Writing”

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

  Bristol Palin

  Book, Writing, Want

  "Bristol Palin's Solo Act". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 26, 2010.

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

  Gerald C. Meyers

  Motivational, Night, Self Improvement

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

  Claudius

  Motivational, Self Improvement, Public Speaking

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• A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Self Improvement, Public Speaking, Orators

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• 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.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sound

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1113, e-artnow

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• Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

  Eliot Spitzer

  Speak, Public Speaking, Streets

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• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Girl, Wall, Humorous

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mediocrity, Painting, Public Speaking

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