25 Public Speaking Quotes

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

-John Ford

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“Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours”

-Benjamin Disreali

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“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

-Mark Twain

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“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you make them feel”

-Carl W. Buechner

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“As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and the written word”

-Peter Drucker

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“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.”

-D.H. Lawrence

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

-Mark Twain

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“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”

-Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

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“Words have incredible power. They make people’s heart soar, or they make people’s heart sore”

-Dr. Mardy Grothe

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“It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time”

-Wayne Burgraff

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“If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in and hour”

-Dianna Booher

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“There are three things to aim at in Public speaking: first to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your heart of your audience”

-Alexander Gregg

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“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism. A belief how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people”

-Andre Dubus

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“The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives”

-Lily Walters

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“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.”

-Cato The Elder

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“If you don’t know what you want  to achieve in your presentation your audience never will”

-Harvey Diamond

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“90% of how well the talk will go is determined before the speaker steps on the platform”

-Somers White

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“The problem with speeches isn’t so much not knowing how to stop, as knowing when not to begin”

– Frances Rodman

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“I have argued that a key – perhaps the key – to leadership, as well as the garnering of a following, is the effective  communication of a story”

-Howard Gardner

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“A person can have the greatest idea in the world – completely different and novel – but if that person can’t convince enough other people, it does not matter”

-Gregory Berns

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“Just because you know how to talk, does not mean you know how to present”

-Roberto Monaco

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“Ask yourself, if you only have sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get my message across”

-Jeff Dewar

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“The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going”

-Philip Crosby

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“The purpose of your presentation is just one : to influence”

-Roberto Monaco

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Shaklee International Toastmasters Club invite everyone interested to learn or improve your speaking skills.

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