Public speaking Quotes

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

— Eliot Spitzer

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The crowd shouldn't dictate your performance”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Great losses are great lessons.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Don't mention your move before you make a move.”

— Amit Kalantri

Public Speaking is very easy.

— Dan Quayle

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

— Jonathan Swift

“All worries are less with wine.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

— Dianna Daniels Booher

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

— Bristol Palin

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

— William Hazlitt

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”

— Amit Kalantri

If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

— Jake Roberts

“Voice Value. Your voice makes a first impression. Is your voice coming across as smart, friendly, and positive or ignorant, rude, and…

— Susan C. Young

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“A story unfolds over time and often involves characters and events. In the corporate context, they often serve the aim to 'inCITE':…

— Calvin Niles

“Even hackneyed and commonplace maxims are to be used, if they suit one's purpose: just because they are commonplace, every one seems…

— Aristotle

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”

— Amit Kalantri

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

— Karl Kraus

If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable -…

— Hillary Clinton

“Imagine a room of a hundred people huddled around a control panel, doing everything in their power to capture the attention of…

— Calvin Niles

“Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his…

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

“What I mean is that public speaking and oratory were not merely things that ancient women didn’t do: they were exclusive practices…

— Mary Beard

The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it,…

— David McCullough

“We’ve all known the proverbial conversation hog who dominates a discussion and pays little notice to another person’s input. They’re so busy…

— Susan C. Young

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it. If this requires public speaking…

— Susan Cain

I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How…

— David Benioff

“If you live with fear and consider yourself as something special then automatically, emotionally, you are distanced from others. You then create…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Speaking on Stage Speakers and presenters have only a few short seconds before their audience members begin forming opinions. True professionals know…

— Susan C. Young

“Public speaking phobia has many causes, including early childhood setbacks, that have to do with our unique personal histories, not inborn temperament.…

— Susan Cain

It's a sick thing, right: people are afraid of public speaking. I do public speaking, except my public speaking involves the audience…

— Hari Kondabolu

“ Behavior Rehearsal So far, we have used imagery to place ourselves in ideal relaxed settings. But mental imagery is also a…

— Jonathan Berent

“Why put together a stand-up comedy routine? Especially if you’re not planning a comedy career? Because in the very process of creating…

— Judy Carter

“In fact, public speaking anxiety may be primal and quintessentially human, not limited to those of us born with a high-reactive nervous…

— Susan Cain

“What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in the senate?…

— Constantine Cavafy