Best 193 quotes in «public speaking quotes» category

I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the piano in front of people, but I could act. I found that being on stage, I felt, "This is home." I felt an immediate right thing, and the exchange between the audience and the actors on stage was so fulfilling. I just went, "That is the conversation I want to have.

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

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

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

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

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

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

Action achieves ambition.

A good speech has ripple effect. Charisma makes it last.

A good speech creates ripple-effect. With charisma, it becomes more attractive.

A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.

All those iconic presenters of today were a shy little kid back then.

All we need to do is get those nervous butterflies in our stomachs flying in formation.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.

A few mistakes do not a fiasco make. Professionals throw them off casually but file them away to reinvent as an endearing anecdote in later presentations. Make them part of the performance! Put them behind you and keep going whatever happens.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn.

Avoid the enthymeme form when you are trying to rouse feeling; for it will either kill the feeling or will itself fall flat: all simultaneous motions tend to cancel each other either completely or partially.

A single 10-minute presentation has the power to convert your idea into reality.

Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside “identity theft” and “mass shootings.” In the 1980s, it completed with “nuclear destruction.” In the 1970s, “shark attack.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his attention from the shoeing process. One way to get air out of a glass is to pour in water. Be Absorbed by Your Subject

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.