Top 26 Good Public Speaking Quotes
#1. Good public speaking is based on good private thinking
Scott Berkun
#2. For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.
Mimi Kennedy
#4. I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.
Tom Paulin
#5. I want to tell her that's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through all the silent parts.
John Green
#6. I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.
Terry Bradshaw
#7. I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.
Paul Dano
#8. A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
Winston S. Churchill
#9. I meant what I said. I like you. A lot. I want to get to know you ... all of you. Every stupid little detail about your life. You don't have to run anymore. You can give this a chance
Jus Accardo
#10. I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
Jason Wiles
#11. 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
#12. It looks like President Bush will be handing over power to the Iraqis by June 30th. That's amazing and not only that, but it looks like he'll be handing over power to the Democrats by November 2nd.
David Letterman
#13. Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals.
Lysander Spooner
#14. Do you know what a great gift it is that God gave us the right to speak to Him every hour and moment, wherever we are? He always listens to us. This is the greatest honor we have. For this reason we must love God.
Porphyrios Bairaktaris Of Kafsokalivia
#15. 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
#16. Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
George Bernard Shaw
#17. If you ask the great city, 'Who is this person?,' she will answer, 'He is my child.
Victor Hugo
#18. It's the uncertainty concerning themselves that makes our friends conspire to deny the differences.
Truman Capote
#19. I'm afraid of not having enough time," she clarified. "Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgments and mistakes that everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies.
Ann Brashares
#20. Now if you have proofs to bring forward, bring them forward, and your moral discourse as well; if you have no enthymemes, then fall back upon moral discourse: after all, it is more fitting for a good man to display himself as an honest fellow than as a subtle reasoner.
Aristotle.
#21. She's still sleeping. She's warm and sweet, and snores like a lumberjack. Bless her heart.
Kristen Proby
#22. The first
sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures
us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.
Dale Carnegie
#23. A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#24. Combining storytelling, humanity, and laughter will give you a huge advantage in your public speaking and the odds are good that you already have all the raw material you need.
David Nihill
#25. Never trust someone who can't enjoy music [...] you can guarantee that they're only half alive.
Jane Godwin
#26. I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
F Scott Fitzgerald
