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Public Speaking Quotes

1.
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Claudius

Authors on Public Speaking Quotes: Dale Carnegie Ralph Waldo Emerson Jonathan Swift Susan Cain Abraham Lincoln Franklin P. Adams Scott Berkun Harvey Diamond Andrew Lang Joseph Pulitzer Rudolf Flesch Eliot Spitzer Henry Ward Beecher Tom Peters Patricia Briggs George Bancroft William Hazlitt Kin Hubbard Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading Dani Shapiro Jay Ruderman Rene Redzepi Barbara Ehrenreich Lee Maracle William Manchester Holly Hunter Finley Peter Dunne Deborah Tannen Jean de la Bruyere Richard Brookhiser Dan Quayle Heinrich Heine Kumail Nanjiani
2.
Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
Joseph Pulitzer

3.
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale Carnegie

4.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
Heinrich Heine

5.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw

6.
Tell the audience what you're going to say,
say it;
then tell them what you've said.
Dale Carnegie

7.
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
Albert Ellis

8.
More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.
Deborah Tannen

9.
"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "
Kin Hubbard

10.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
Baron de Montesquieu

11.
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
Isak Dinesen

12.
If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.
Harvey Diamond

13.
An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
Dale Carnegie

14.
My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.
Lee Maracle

15.
A talk is a voyage.
It must be charted.
The speaker who starts nowhere,
usually gets there.
Dale Carnegie

16.
Say what you have to say, and then stop.
Rudolf Flesch

17.
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 it and it makes a heck of a difference.
Tom Peters

18.
If your own mind is muddled,
much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.
Dale Carnegie

19.
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 deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
William Manchester

20.
Every man is eloquent once in his life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

21.
He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
Andrew Lang

22.
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
Franklin P. Adams

23.
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 or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
Barbara Ehrenreich

24.
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
Henry Ward Beecher

25.
Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading

26.
The people are to be taken in very small doses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

27.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Jean de la Bruyere

28.
I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.
Kumail Nanjiani

29.
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

30.
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.
Abraham Lincoln

31.
I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.
Terry Bradshaw

32.
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
Jonathan Swift

33.
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
George Bancroft

34.
When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.
Jay Ruderman

35.
A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
Finley Peter Dunne

36.
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."
Robert Morley

37.
Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
Eliot Spitzer

38.
Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.
Susan Cain

39.
Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.
Patricia Briggs

40.
Good public speaking is based on good private thinking
Scott Berkun

41.
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
William Hazlitt

42.
I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.
Dani Shapiro

43.
Public Speaking is very easy.
Dan Quayle

44.
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
Rene Redzepi

45.
I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the piano in front of people, but I could act. I found that being on stage, I felt, "This is home." I felt an immediate right thing, and the exchange between the audience and the actors on stage was so fulfilling. I just went, "That is the conversation I want to have."
Holly Hunter

46.
Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.
Richard Brookhiser

47.
Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.
Jon Stewart