Public Speaking Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Public speaking is an audience participation event; if it weren’t, it would be private speaking.”
– Unknown

“A good speech is like a pencil; it has to have a point.”
– Unknown

“Exhaust either the topic nor the audience.”
– Unknown

“No good speech ever came to a bad end.”
– Unknown

“Caution: Do not open mouth until brain is in gear.”
– Unknown

“Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.”
– Franklin P. Adams

“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia…and…with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Every man is eloquent once in his life.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.”
– Heinrich Heine

“Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.”
– Adolf Hitler

“I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp: I know what I ought to do, but I don’t know where to begin.”
– Stephen Bayne

“Beware of the conversationalist who adds “In other words.”
– Robert Morley

“The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.”
– Herman Herst Jr.

“A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people waste only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s time – more than four days – which should be a hanging offense.”
– Jenkin Lloyd

“He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.”
– Andrew Lang

“If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that’s the only way to sweeten it.”
– Cardinal de Retz

“Once you get ‘em laughing and their mouths open, you can stuff something in.”
– Frances Harvey Green

“An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.”
– William Hazlitt

“Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances…If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.”
– James C. Humes

“A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.”
– Finley Peter Dunne

“What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.”
– Baron de Montesquieu

“I have always considered applause at the beginning of a lecture a manifestation of faith. If it comes in the middle, it is a sign of hope. And if it comes at the end, it is always charity.”
– Abraham R. Besdin

“A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.”
– Dale Carnegie

“If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.”
– Dale Carnegie

“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

“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

“Is enthusiasm important in selling? Yes, genuine, heartfelt enthusiasm is one of the most potent factors of success in almost any undertaking.”
– Dale Carnegie

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5

Follow this site