Speeches Quotes

I hate speeches.

— Travis Fimmel

I write all of my own speeches.

— Greta Thunburg

I'm not very good at speeches.

— Ben Howard

I enjoyed writing speeches.

— Lauren Ridloff

People always need to hear good motivational speeches.

— Rudy Ruettiger

“If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

“logographos, a writer of speeches for others to use”

— Aristotle

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

— Laozi

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

— Colin Powell

“In presentations or speeches less really is more”

— Stephen Keague

It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face!

— Michelle Obama

I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

— Nikki Giovanni

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

— Joe Strummer

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

— Dwayne Andreas

“Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

— David Harbour

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

— Ann Richards

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his…

— David Limbaugh

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing…

— John Major

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“So many powerful, inspirational, insightful, hopeful and connected speeches today. It's been a joy to feel the energy of the women's marches…

— Scott Stabile

The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first…

— Jack Canfield

At some point early on, I realized that three of the greatest speeches ever delivered were by Winston Churchill, and they were…

— Anthony McCarten

“Scholars have long recognized that Luke himself wrote these speeches—they are not the speeches that these apostles really delivered at one time…

— Bart D. Ehrman

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one…

— Dale Carnegie

When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought…

— Gretchen Rubin

“McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of…

— Maureen Dowd

I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I…

— John Abbott

“In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to…

— Claudia Clark

When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with him on the campaign trail, but…

— Patti Davis

“I believe with all my heart, that Magnus is a worthy and superior successor to your current king. Therefore, I ask today…

— Morgan Rhodes

“A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this…

— Israelmore ayivor

“...when President Clinton, on the anniversary of his election, spoke in the church in Tennessee where Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

I was very nervous about giving speeches for a long time.

— Rosalynn Carter

I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

— Gene Wilder

I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

— Kate Middleton

“[Stump speeches] are to oratory what a stump is to a tree.”

— Jon Stewart