Public Speaking Quotes

True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.

Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.

Don't worry. You'll find your message in your mess.

The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

Great losses are great lessons.

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

Simplicity saves strength.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

What does it mean to be an advocate?
In its broadest sense, advocacy means “any public action to support and recommend a cause, policy or practice.” That covers a lot of public actions, from displaying
 a bumper sticker to sounding off with a bullhorn. But whether the action is slapping something on the back of a car or speaking in front of millions, every act of advocacy involves making some kind of public statement, one that says, “I support this.” Advocacy is a communicative act. Advocacy is also a persuasive act. “I support this” is usually followed by another statement (sometimes only implied): “...and you should, too.” Advocacy not only means endorsing a cause or idea, but recommending, promoting, defending, or arguing for it.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.

Some will, some won't. Look for the ones who will.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcomeself-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before anaudience?"Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that somehorses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at thethundering cars, while just ahead at the next railroad crossing afarmer's wife will be nervously trying to quiet her scared horse asthe train goes by?How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars—graze him in aback-woods lot where he would never see steam-engines orautomobiles, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently seethe machines?Apply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness andfear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying. You can never attainfreedom from stage-fright by reading a treatise. A book may giveyou excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in thewater, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangleand be "half scared to death." There are a great many "wetless"bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swimin them. To plunge is the only way.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression.

A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside “identity theft” and “mass shootings.” In the 1980s, it completed with “nuclear destruction.” In the 1970s, “shark attack.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world may no longer be to write a letter to the editor or publish a book. It may be simply to stand up and say something . . . because both the words and the passion with which they are delivered can now spread across the world at warp speed.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

Diet food is not a meal its a medicine.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.