Best Public Speaking Quotes
93 Public Speaking quotes by 76 unique authors
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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
— Claudius
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Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
— Franklin P. Adams
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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…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Every man is eloquent once in his life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.
— Adolf Hitler
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Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."
— Robert Morley
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The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.
— Unknown Author
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If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
— William Hazlitt
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A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at…
— Tom Peters
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Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears
— Gerald C. Meyers
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Good public speaking is based on good private thinking
— Scott Berkun
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Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught…
— Nick Morgan
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Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.
— Jon Stewart
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I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.
— Bristol Palin
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In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
— Jonathan Swift
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When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Public Speaking is very easy.
— Dan Quayle
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When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
— Rene Redzepi
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More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.
— Deborah Tannen
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a…
— William Manchester
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I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.
— Nicholson Baker
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