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- “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams - “There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”
– Jean de la Bruyere - “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford - “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
– William Arthur Ward - “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou - “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead - “You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.”
– John Ford - “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 - “Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
– Dionysius Of Halicarnassus - “What we say is important… for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
– Jim Beggs - “If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.”
– Dianna Booher - “There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.”
– Dale Carnegie - “It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
– Mark Twain - “A good orator is pointed and impassioned.”
– Marcus T. Cicero - “Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.”
– Joseph Chatfield - “He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.”
– Joseph Conrad - “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 the heart of your audience.”
– Alexander Gregg - “The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.”
– Lilly Walters - “Best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you’re talking about.”
– Michael H. Mescon - “There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.”
– Mark Twain - “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
– Alexander Graham Bell - “90% of how well the talk will go is determined before the speaker steps on the platform.” – Somers White
- “It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.”
– Wayne Burgraff - “The most precious things in speech are the… pauses.”
– Sir Ralph Richardson - “Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
– Martin Fraquhar Tupper - “The problem with speeches isn’t so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.”
– Frances Rodman - “Words have incredible power. They can make people’s hearts soar, or they can make people’s hearts sore.
– Dr. Mardy Grothe - “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
– Mark Twain - “If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential.”
– Warren Buffet - “If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.”
– Gerald R. Ford - “Always give a speech that you would like to hear.”
– Andrii Sedniev - “If you don’t know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.”
– Harvey Diamond - “Find out what’s keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.”
– Gerald C Myers - “In presentations or speeches less really is more.”
– Stephen Keague - “Speeches measured by the hour die with the hour”
–Thomas Jefferson - “It’s much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what’s important to you about your message and speak from the heart”
– Nicholas Boothman - “Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.”
– Dale Carnegie - “Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.”
– Dale Carnegie - “It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.”
-Brian Tracy - “All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it… it doesn’t matter where your hands are.”
– Lou Holtz - “If you don’t use stories audience members may enjoy your speech, but there is no chance they’ll remember it.”
– Andrii Sedniev - “There is no such thing as presentation talent, it is called presentation skills”
-David JP Phillips - “The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.”
– Philip Crosby - “Ask yourself, ‘If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get my message across.”
– Jeff Dewar - “It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.”
– Rob Gilbert - “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, and to sit down and listen.”
– Winston Churchill - “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin - “Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it: To Whom It May Concern.”
– Ken Haemer - “The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say ‘Me too!’ versus ‘So what?’”
– Jim Rohn - “The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
– Dale Carnegie
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