25 more awesome public speaking quotes
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; !courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.!
Winston Churchill
Find out what’s keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.!
Gerald C Myers
It’s quite simple. Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down.!
Winston Churchill
It’s not how strongly you feel about your topic, it’s how strongly they feel about your topic after you speak.!
Tim Salladay
99% of the population is afraid of public speaking, and of the remaining 1%, 99% of them have nothing original and interesting to say.!
Jarod Kintz
Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking
come as gold from the mines.!
A. Owen
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.!
Cicero
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
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very. Otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.!
C.S. Lewis
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.!
Aristotle
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it
according to the motion it takes.!
Michel de Montaigne
In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.!
William Hazlitt