Public Speaking Quotes

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“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 S. Churchill

“Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…”
― Paul Arden

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You better understand this, Cindy,” Wanda said. “The sooner you do the better your life will be. In your eyes, no man will ever measure up to Daddy. If I picked Jesus Christ to marry, He wouldn’t measure up to Daddy.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

“Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome
self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an
audience?"
Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that some
horses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at the
thundering cars, while just ahead at the next railroad crossing a
farmer's wife will be nervously trying to quiet her scared horse as
the train goes by?
How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars—graze him in a
back-woods lot where he would never see steam-engines or
automobiles, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently see
the machines?
Apply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness and
fear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying. You can never attain
freedom from stage-fright by reading a treatise. A book may give
you excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in the
water, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangle
and be "half scared to death." There are a great many "wetless"
bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim
in them. To plunge is the only way.”
― Dale Breckenridge Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking

“All worries are less with wine.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Great losses are great lessons.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Honestly, if everyone likes what you say something is wrong with your message.”
― Ashley Ormon

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn.”
― Todd Stocker

“The first
sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures
us, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise.”
― Dale Breckenridge Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking

“Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance”
― Stephen Keague, The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short”
― Stephen Keague, The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“If you live with fear and consider yourself as something special then automatically, emotionally, you are distanced from others. You then create the basis for feelings of alienation from others and loneliness. So, I never consider, even when giving a talk to a large crowd, that I am something special, I am 'His Holiness the Dalai Lama' . . . I always emphasize that when I meet people, we are all the same human beings. A thousand people -- same human being. Ten thousand or a hundred thousand -- same human being -- mentally, emotionally, and physically. Then, you see, no barrier. Then my mind remains completely calm and relaxed. If too much emphasis on myself, and I start to think I'm something special, then more anxiety, more nervousness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“In presentations or speeches less really is more”
― Stephen Keague, The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting

“The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech”
― Stephen Keague, The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words