The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid – Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. – Jerry Seinfeld
Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech. – Martin Farquhar Tupper
No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short. – Stephen Keague
Once you get people laughing, they’re listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. – Dorothy Sarnoff
The worst speech you’ll ever give, will be far better than the one you never give. – Fred Miller
All great speakers were bad speakers at first. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. – Mark Twain
It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech. – Mark Twain
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident. – Dale Carnegie
A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. – Winston Churchill
A good speech is like a pencil; it has to have a point.
Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.
Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way. – Paul Arden
When speaking in public, your message – no matter how important – will not be effective or memorable if you don’t have a clear structure. – Patricia Fripp
If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential. – Warren Buffett
It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time. – Wayne Burgraff
Great speakers listen to the audience with their eyes.
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. – George Jessel
Fear paralyses you – fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is. – Annie Lennox
Best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you’re talking about.
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
In presentations or speeches less really is more. – Stephen Keague
If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour. – Dianna Booher
Visualize yourself giving the entire speech as a controlled, confident speaker. – Ibrahim Mustapha
There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. – Robert Greenleaf
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. – Winston Churchill
The best way to sound like you know what you’re talking about is to know what you’re talking about.
If you’re public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you’re nervous about a date and thinking, ‘I’m gonna be a dork,’ picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain. – Lindsey Stirling
The most precious things in speech are pauses. – Ralph Richardson
I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I’d speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one. – Robin S. Sharma
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow. – Cato the Elder
The best way to make a good speech is to have a good beginning and a good ending – and have them close together.
Public speaking is an audience participation event; if it weren’t, it would be private speaking.
All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it… it doesn’t matter where your hands are.
Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear. – Bill Clegg
Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance. – Stephen Keague
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