025 Awesome Public Speaking Quotes:
1. “You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.” - John Ford
2. “Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it h-t.” - D. H. Lawrence
3. “Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.” - Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
4. “What we say is important… for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” - Jim Beggs
5. “If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.” - Dianna Booher
6. “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
7. “It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” - Mark Twain
8. “A good orator is pointed and impassioned.” - Marcus T. Cicero
9. “Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.” - Joseph Chatfield
10. “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
11. “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
12. “The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.” - Lilly Walters
13. “If you don’t know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.” - Harvey Diamond
14. “Best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you’re talking about.” - Michael H Mescon
15. “There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.” - Mark Twain
16. “No one ever complains about a speech being too short!” - Ira Hayes
17. “90% of how well the talk will go is determined before the speaker steps on the platform.” - Somers White
18. “It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.” - Wayne Burgraff
19. “The most precious things in speech are the pauses.” - Sir Ralph Richardson
20. “Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.” - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
21. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” - Carl W. Buechner
22. “The problem with speeches isn’t so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.” - Frances Rodman
23. “Words have incredible power.
They can make people’s hearts soar,
or they can make people’s hearts sore.”
- Dr. Mardy Grothe24. “Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” - Mark Twain
